I advocate looking in Llama before hitting the Cookbook or others: I still do: It has a wealth of hints on the style of Perl.

Your code shows a great deal of thought. However, much of Perl's strength is found by ignoring your expectations of a programming language.

What you percieve as recycled code is more likely code maxims: shorthand for everyday Perl activities.

( Maxims aren't clichés: clichés should be avoided like the plague :-)

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Brother Frankus.