Re: CPAN module fior common idioms?

There are just too many such idioms.

If you know what domain your problem is, you'll often find a module that doesn't do anything by itself but which contains many of the idioms in that domain. Examples include Scalar::Util, List::Util, Language::Functional, etc.

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Re^2: CPAN module fior common idioms? by Solo (Deacon) on Jul 22, 2004 at 19:52 UTC
There are just too many such idioms. There are too many regular expressions, too. But that does not make Regexp::Common a bad idea. --Solo -- You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake; well, this could be it, sweetheart.	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN module fior common idioms? by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2004 at 20:10 UTC
What idioms would you put in such a module? Or, put another way, what modules would you include in such a module? :-) ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Then there are Damian modules.... sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon.* - flyingmoose I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN module fior common idioms? by gaal (Parson) on Jul 22, 2004 at 20:14 UTC
I don't think it's a bad idea; just that you can't cleanly separate "idioms" from everything else in CPAN. There are idiom libraries out there -- I gave a few examples. But most modules solve practical problems, and solutions carry some inevitable functional (lowercase f) cruft that is best kept in a module.	[reply]