On 2013-11-13 10:13, Karen Etheridge wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 08:58:41AM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
It's not meant to be fancy -- just simple and convenient.
Simple and convenient for you perhaps, but that doesn't merit an upload to the
CPAN where code is expected to be usable by all.
But simple things are more used than complex things that people
cannot understand.
Take P. Some people really don't get what it's about. They think
it is a combination of printf and sprintf. Even people who write about
it don't bother to read the perldoc page, it's quite clear.
Right at the top:
P - Safer, friendlier printf/print/sprintf + say
Yeah sure it is shorter in typing. Sure it fixes a bug in sprintf
that they can't fix in perl, yeah sure, it implements the functions
of 'say' that needed a 4th keyword that was added to perl.
You don't want P in the top level namespace, how about treat
it like "say" and add it to Perl core? Let's keep things in perspective.
I didn't ask that it be in perl core, but some people think P doesn't
belong in its own namespace, while 'say' gets accepted into core?
But the main things I like about P, is I an print strings and see
my output even when they are mixed with "undef". I can see the top levels
of my references, while perl offers ARRAY(1203489790)... or
HASH(0x1349100), etc.
But I thank Chris for the review... though I can't say way.
It encourages me to put more on CPAN... I won't learn otherwise.
