When developing (and therefore writing tests and fire-and-forget scripts) for AnyEvent I routinely end up with a boilerplate like this:

my $cv = AnyEvent->condvar;
my $timer = AnyEvent->timer( after => 10, cb => sub { $cv->croak("Time
+out"); };
do_something( 
    on_success => sub{ $cv->send(@_); }, 
    on_error => sub{ $cv->croak(shift); },
);
my $result = $cv->recv();
undef $timer; 
analyze_do_something( $result );
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I finally got fed up with it and wrote a module (after asking a local mailing list) with the following interface:

my $result = ae_recv {
    do_something( 
        on_success => ae_send,
        on_error => ae_croak,
    );
} 10; # timeout 
analyze_do_something( $result );
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So, my questions would be:

1) Is there such a module already? I haven't found one, but...

2) Is there really a need for such a module?

3) If so, how should I name it? I came up with AnyEvent::AdHoc, but that still isn't clear enough. AnyEvent::Test seems misleading (it's not test-only, and doesn't test AnyEvent itself) and AnyEvent::Simple/Easy seem too broad (besides, AnyEvent doesn't seem easy even with a nice wrapper).

UPDATE: I released the code in question as AE::AdHoc. See http://search.cpan.org/~khedin/AE-AdHoc-0.08/lib/AE/AdHoc.pm