Sorry, but your argument amounts to "we will never know how likely it is to get cancer from smoking because the vast amount of people aren't in our study, and there are more in people not in our study than are in it thus the data on how many people got cancer is totally useless".

Good thing you arent a doctor eh?

The fact is that if you check cpan and find out that 100% of the the modules on it use ~~ then its a pretty darn good suggestion this will break a lot of things. If you check it and find out that it doesnt occur even once then its pretty darn good suggestion it wont be found much in the wild. Personally were I pumpking I would feel a lot more at ease integrating a patch in the later case, but certainly wouldnt in the former.

Can we stop it with the "1 GB sample of code cant be used to establish usage frequencies" argument? Its a bit tired, and wasnt a good one in the first place anyway.

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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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