Hmmm. I think you caught me. What I really want is for you (in the generic sense) to dumb down your code so I can easily understand and adopt it and so that it doesn't take much time for me to use it to do my work. When you don't cooperate with my selfish goal but instead have fun with your own elegant approach, then I get peevish. After all, it isn't all about your ego, it is about my paycheck. :)

Either that, or I just got up too early and am cranky.

Update: Strange as it may seem, I'm not being sarcastic, here. I realized that my frustration was founded in the fact that, as BrowserUK pointed out earlier, I stopped learning Perl when I had enough knowledge to get my immediate work done, and I resent the (sometimes perceived as oh-so-clever elitist) folks who were more thorough in learning the language and can thus fully use its capabilities without having to puzzle over it.

In reply to Re^7: defining methods on the fly by ptum
in thread defining methods on the fly by flogic

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