Thing is its not good enough to say "CPAN is not a good source of information" nor is it good enough to say "probably wont break anything".

If CPAN isnt good enough then what is better? If there isnt anything better then CPAN is all you have. If you can turn around to P5P and say gee whiz, in 5000 CPAN modules ~~ isnt used once then you have an argument, if you say to them "CPAN isnt a good source of information as ~~ is only used in one liners and this patch probably wont break anything" then I would have to assume they will not take your efforts seriously. Nor should they and nor should you expect them to...

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demerphq

In reply to Re^7: Smart match in p5 by demerphq
in thread Smart match in p5 by xmath

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