* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-13 21:10]:
> Why is there not a Bundle::PerlPlus (and yes, I've lathered up
> my yak with that name) that downloads and installs the modules
> that should have been in the box?
I thought that’s called “the core distribution.” NEXT is already
in there. So is List::Util (a big deal for me).
The problem is how to get neophytes clued in quickly that these
are the modules they need to make Perl into more of the language
they should be using.
It isn’t just the modules, you know.
Few beginners are indoctrinated to use lexical filehandles and
three-arg `open` from the very beginning.
Even the reflexive use of narrowly scoped lexical variables is
not something they are conditioned to early on – really
unfortunate, since there are soooo many classes of bugs you
simply won’t run into if you don’t keep variables around. Eg.
I can count on my fingers the number of times that I’ve had to
explicitly clear a populated array within a loop. I almost never
even need to think about such issues, it all works out correctly.
And the code is shorter too.
Knowledge like that isn’t available to `cpan -i`.
Regards,
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