The final requirement that you were given: Don't modify the HTML files. The first step of your solution: Modify the HTML files. Any questions?

The reason for the first requirement is that someone besides you is maintaining the HTML files. More changes will come after your system is deployed. Are you going to teach whoever has the job of writing HTML not just all of Perl (since you don't want any restrictions on using the power of Perl) but also your system of embedding Perl into HTML?

As for the benefits or drawbacks of your system, I don't have any comments as I don't understand how your system glues the disjointed chunks of Perl together. You didn't aviod creating a system, you just created one that seemed obvious to you and one that you don't yet see the long-term benefits and gotchas of.

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