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Re: Breaking The Rules

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on May 30, 2006 at 21:21 UTC ( [id://552672]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Breaking The Rules

Or, more succinctly:

CGI.pm doesn't use strictures because Lincoln understands why strictures should be used. Until you know what Lincoln knows, you probably should use strictures as a matter of faith.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: Breaking The Rules
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 30, 2006 at 23:30 UTC

    That's pretty generous. I think CGI doesn't use strictures because it's (working and tested but seriously) crufty code intended to replace worse code, written long before the invention of several good Perl programming practices, and never really refactored into better shape.

    A lot of core modules are scary. I just fixed AutoLoader so as not to be halfway broken, for example.

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