Ok Merlyn, I don't disagree with most of that, althought I did make some comments here(*see note below) which (IMO) somewhat deflate your proper code review and proper security review arguement a little.

I still feel that something that must be done, project after project, and time after time within each project, is an ideal candidate for factorisation.

I also feel that my personal lack of competence (which is confined to Perl, I have 20 years of typing p-r-i-n-t in other languages) is not, and should not be a factor in the discussion of whether the factorisation of--an often used, high priority, difficult to get right--part of the overall Perl/CGI project equation is a valid and valuable idea or not.

Maybe NIH lives on.

* Note: the referenced post is attributed to (as is the post to which you replied) AM cos i made a stupid mistake. I have asked the editors to correct this.

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