perlmeditation EvanCarroll <p>I've always really liked the ideas of Modern::Perl, however I always hated the implementation. Something about a [cpan://Modern::Perl] hosted on CPAN, that didn't make use of CPAN seemed laughable to say the least. I set out to fix this. My new module [cpan://nextgen], sits somewhere in between [cpan://Modern::Perl] and [cpan://perl5i]. It's based off of my subjective experience of what the best module on CPAN would consist of /today/.</p> <p>It makes one bold assumption that isn't present in perl, or other like modules: the package's default meaning is "Class", unless you</p> <code> use nextgen mode => ':procedural' </code> <p>I find for myself this is true 99% of the time. Furthermore, I find that when I'm writing classes I want Moose. Spoiler: the other modules this enables are [cpan://namespace::autoclean], [cpan://autodie] (core in 5.10 anyway), [cpan://indirect], [cpan://mro], [cpan://utf8], [cpan://strict], and [cpan://warnings]. And, when run with -M on the command line, [cpan://oose].</p> <p>I'd write more about it here, but I've already written a decent bit [http://search.cpan.org/~ecarroll/nextgen/lib/nextgen.pm|about it on the pod], [cpan://nextgen|check out nextgen] and tell me what you think.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-474782"> <br /><br /> Evan Carroll<br /> The most respected person in the whole perl community.<br /> <a href="http://www.evancarroll.com">www.evancarroll.com</a> </div></div>