First off, I submitted a bug for the Want prereq. Guess who responded. TheDamian. Very quickly, too, I might add. "Patched." So perhaps he can chime in here.

My guess is that it'll be viewed as a documentation bug and that this is viewed as a "feature". Personally, I agree that it's not expected and, although I think it may not follow the principle of least surprise, I can also see how it could be seen as a "cool" feature.

I would think that it should be an option, though, to the prompt function. "-parseargv", perhaps. Default would be to ignore @ARGV. This way, we get the principle of least surprise while still keeping the cool feature. The downside to this is that it would break any scripts that rely on the current behaviour. Not breaking these scripts, however, would break the principle of least surprise, IMO.

But we'll have to leave it to TheDamian to decide. After all, I'm just but a young whippersnapper who barely knows the difference between map and for, nevermind an esteemed user of TheDamian's modules. ;-)

In reply to Re^3: Using IO::Prompt's menu by Tanktalus
in thread Using IO::Prompt's menu by ghenry

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