Re: Yet another set of Perl best practices

[toolic]

19. Depending on an external module needs a good justification.

Re-inventing an optimized, well-tested, well-documented wheel requires an even better justification.

[salva]

Providing functionality is a very good justification.

But for instance, providing syntactic sugar is not a so good justification, in some cases it would make sense, in others it would not.