I'm not sure, however, how that concept suddenly becomes an endorsement for Parse::FixedLength.
No, I wasn't saying you explicitly condoned this module. But the concept which motivated it is similar to the one espoused in your book.
I admit that I didn't know about the module when I was writing the book,
Ok, please explain how when writing a chapter/section of fixed-length parsing you managed not to goto search.cpan.org and type FixedLength into the search box and see what was relevant?
but having now looked at the module I think that it makes things more complex than using plain pack and unpack.
WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL! But do you se what you just said?!!!!! You said you THINK it makes things more complex? Don't you, dont tilly, don't arhuman, don't the rest of you people around here realize that thought, opinion, belief are useless, unscientific words which prove NOTHING?! I don't care what you THINK...... PROVE your point with examples!!!!

Get this straight: I am not interested in being right. I am interested in doing right. I want my ideas, and code xamples torn apart if they are bad and I want to see how the real experts are doing it and how it should be done.

But most of you "xperts" seem content to post vague unempirical, example-free statements as if that is supposed to enlighten someone as to what exactly is wrong with what they are doing.

And I can find post after post after post where both of you say something but provide no examples or support as to why what you say is reasonable. But of course since you both are the darlings of Perlmonks, you still get copious up-voting on something which leaves no instruction or enlightenment for posterity and which would have you downvoted in a true academic debate.

Please excuse this frustrated post, but you people neeed to wake up and get out of your bad habits.

In reply to Davorg,, Tilly and Any other "Experts" --- get with empiricism, not belief by princepawn
in thread does anyone else use Parse::FixedLength;? by cmilfo

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