First off, that made me laugh. :-)

But, it also serves a few very important purposes.

  1. It's opensource for a reason. Leverage that.
  2. param() is one of the most complicated methods in CGI, for a reason - it does a gazillion things. Replicating that isn't simple and it shouldn't be seen as simple.
  3. Lincoln's code is actually quite good. It's the problemspace that sucks. Newbies could do with a worse teacher of style and readability.
  4. Client bugs suck. There's a ton of code in there to deal with browser incompatibilities. Newbies need to be smacked in the face about that, and often.

There is method to my cruelty.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: How to create multipurpose lvalue sub such as CGI::param ? by dragonchild
in thread How to create multipurpose lvalue sub such as CGI::param ? by atento

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