Hi all guardians of Perl wisdom. This is my very first post at the Monastery, though not so new programing in Perl.

Due to my continuous relation with processing SNMP counter values (those who grow until overflowing and then start again from zero) I've noticed that there's any Perl module (or I'm unable to find it at CPAN) for dealing with this kind of data that I freely name deltas: the difference between two numeric values in time considering the fact that they can overflow.

Following the tachyon's "How to make a CPAN Module Distribution" advices, I submit the question to you before trying to upload it to the module repository: Does exist a module that deals with this kind of processing? If not, is Data::Delta a right name or might be named in other way?

Many thanks in advance.

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