>>>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:01:56 -0600 (CST), Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Johan Vromans wrote:
>> That's okay. TIMTOWTDI.
>>
>> Would you settle for Getargs::Validate?
> I find Getargs confusingly similar to Getopts, considering that we often
> refer to 'command line arguments'. Also, it doesn't actually return the
> parameters the way Raphael's module does, it simply validates them, so
> there's really no 'getting' happening at all. You're responsible for
> assigning them to a hash or individual scalars or whatnot.
But Getargs has one advantage over Params: it pre-existed. Params made
up a new rootleval namespace and I wonder what it might be good for
that cannot be served by Getargs.
--
andreas
