Hello monks,

This page on Kwalitee mentions the optional indicator "no_stdin_for_prompting":

no_stdin_for_prompting
Shortcoming: This distribution is using direct call from STDIN instead of prompt())
Remedy: Use the prompt() method

This seems to suggest that there is One True prompt method to be used. Poking around on CPAN gives me IO::Prompt and Term::Prompt, both of which define a prompt(). Should I use one of these? Which is recommended? Can I implement my own prompt()? (Probably shouldn't.) If it's called something else, will kwalitee tests nag me for using <STDIN> in that method?

Am I just nitpicking? A huge majority of distributions are complying to this, according to CPANTS -- maybe because most don't use STDIN anyway, directly or indirectly?

(I have no actual use case to present. This is just me being curious.)

In reply to Kwalitee and the prompt() method by pokki

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