If you change the problem then yes that is an answer. The point of MMD is one name for a sub that acts differently based upon inputs. The original question was over perl 5 being limited by not having MMD. Which it can be made to do, but your post does not. You may claim that MMD is useless to you, and that is fine, however it makes some tasks quite simple like shown in my post. Your answer is fine and it is probably arguable that any use of MMD can be reformated so that it can be solved without MMD. The same is true for OO, and probably any other single peice of programming or concept, it is however not realy a sound argument agianst anything at all.


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In reply to Re^4: The beauty of MMD by eric256
in thread Perl 5's greatest limitation is...? by BrowserUk

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