If Perl6 CGI.pm is intended to be the successor of the P5 CGI.pm (the quasi-standard for Perl web programming) is should really get a modern design.
I agree completely. In that vein, I think that one thing a lot of web developers would like to have available more easily would be session management. In PHP it's as simple as $_SESSION['key'] = 'value'. I understand that CGI.pm is a fundemantally different concept from PHP and that this can't be completely taken care of by the module. Still, if something could be written in, I think it would make many people's lives simpler. Perhaps a method like CGI->get_session_key, which would return a unique ID and handle all this via cookies without the developer needing to notice anything. It would then be a lot easier to keep a (flat file|dbm|sql database) of information tied to that ID. On the other hand, that might be the kind of feature that needs to be done in a seperate module. In any case, I'd be happy to help out with writing it; I'm just not entirely certain of how it should work. Michael
