Re: RFC 78 (v1) Improved Module Versioning And Searching

[Steve Simmons]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:01:39AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:

> Rather than proliferating the number of keywords eaten with all
> these *ref varients, this sounds like a useful place for returning
> an object with a default stringification of the class:
>  . . .
> Ref RFC 37, RFC 73.

I have no problem with this or any other solution that gets the
data back.  I'll add a comment to RFC78 that should those RFCs
prevail, we'll follow them.

For the record, I prefer hashes for that sort of thing too.  But
perl has traditionally done ordered list returns, and I followed in
that vein.