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There are just too many such idioms.

There are too many regular expressions, too. But that does not make Regexp::Common a bad idea.

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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? :-)

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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.
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