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I like File::Spec's way, but not for what File::Spec does. The overloaded method works best when dealing with OO code. F::S should really have used some 'require' magic instead of forcing everone to say File::Spec->foo( ... ). That's really annoying.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

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