note Corion <p>For a counterpoint, see the [http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/08/msg127774.html|recent discussion on p5p] regarding [cpan://parent].pm, which was mostly about [cpan://base].pm having too many magic features that fail in unexpected ways.</p> <p>The functions you want have been written and they live in [cpan://List::MoreUtils], which is a bit inconvenient, but they are still there.</p> 634956 634956