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19. Depending on an external module needs a good justification.
Re-inventing an optimized, well-tested, well-documented wheel requires an even better justification.
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Re^2: Yet another set of Perl best practices
by salva (Canon) on Aug 24, 2012 at 12:49 UTC
    Providing functionality is a very good justification.

    But for instance, providing syntactic sugar is not a so good justification, in some cases it would make sense, in others it would not.

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