Thank you for your willingness to share with us. I think most of us love to learn new things, and Perl Monks is such a great place because of people like you who are willing to share their discoveries and puzzlements, their ideas and questions, their successes and failures.

Don't be discouraged. You posted code which duplicated that of an extrememly well-known CPAN module. Therefore, everyone feels "qualified" to criticize. The comments about specifics in your code? Take them as constructive. The comments which seem a bit more, shall we say, inflammatory? Give them all the attention they deserve: pipe them to /dev/null (ignore them).

Thank you for helping make this a place we all love to visit.

Russ

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