Re^4: PerlMonks has changed me

I was just wondering why you chose to go with a new package instead of campaigning to replace the existing one in the standard distribution? Incompatibilities? Uphill struggle to replace the entrenched? What was the decision process here?

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Re^5: PerlMonks has changed me by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 31, 2005 at 14:38 UTC
Because I was not up to writing it in C at the time. And because IMO the interface is broken and thus rewriting the back end wouldn't resolve some of the issues that I was trying to resolve. (For instance the OO form of DD cant properly serialize named recurisive structures without using a fairly unusual workaround...) Also I guess I never dreamed anyone would consider my code worthy enough to be included in core. :-) --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]

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Re^5: PerlMonks has changed me
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 31, 2005 at 14:38 UTC

Because I was not up to writing it in C at the time. And because IMO the interface is broken and thus rewriting the back end wouldn't resolve some of the issues that I was trying to resolve. (For instance the OO form of DD cant properly serialize named recurisive structures without using a fairly unusual workaround...)

Also I guess I never dreamed anyone would consider my code worthy enough to be included in core. :-)

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