What hidden bits of functionality have you found in CPAN? Not the popular modules like DBI and Template that everybody knows about. Not the modules that you use every day. I mean some little module, or part of a module, that:
- You thought would be in CPAN
- You couldn't find it when you looked
- Later found in some odd module after you had coded your own version :-)
For example, while I was writing Test::Class I needed something to return the calling order of methods in a class hierarchy.
A quick poke around CPAN didn't produce any results so I coded my own variant. A few weeks later I found self_and_super_path in Class::ISA which did exactly what I wanted. Nice!
So, what little gems have you found in CPAN that nobody else has heard of, and would have trouble finding even if they had?
- 2002/10/23 - 23:00 GMT
- New rule: If there is a perl.com article on a module, or you know who has written an article on it - it's not a hidden gem :-)
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Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by valdez (Monsignor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 10:57 UTC | |
by RMGir (Prior) on Oct 23, 2002 at 13:20 UTC | |
by dwiz (Pilgrim) on Oct 24, 2002 at 08:04 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by gjb (Vicar) on Oct 23, 2002 at 10:34 UTC | |
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 22:16 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by joe++ (Friar) on Oct 23, 2002 at 15:08 UTC | |
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Oct 23, 2002 at 18:08 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by hiseldl (Priest) on Oct 23, 2002 at 14:18 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 23, 2002 at 18:38 UTC | |
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2002 at 01:23 UTC | |
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2002 at 08:18 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by princepawn (Parson) on Oct 23, 2002 at 14:13 UTC | |
by gjb (Vicar) on Oct 23, 2002 at 23:24 UTC | |
Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN
by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2002 at 17:37 UTC |
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