I agree with you. This isn't a black-and-white issue for me (see (tye)Re2: 'Tailing' a File?). However, processing forms w/o CGI.pm is almost always a mistake and, in this case, I don't think trying to reinvent CGI.pm is a good idea.

Now some serious rewriting of how CGI.pm generates HTML, sure, that would be worthwhile. (: Seriously, though, feel free to rewrite all of the CGI.pm after you thuroughly understand the current CGI.pm. I think someone already did that, in fact, with CGI3.pm (whose exact state I think we are still unsure of).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Where do you want to go today? (a little deeper than CGI.pm) by tye
in thread Where do you want to go today? (a little deeper than CGI.pm) by deprecated

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