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I'm happy to receive bug reports, comments, patches, pull requests (with tests), etc at the github repo page: https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/issues. Please don't rant though, there's 20 years of history in this module that pre-dates my maintenance involvement. Turn the rant(s) into something constructive!

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Re^5: Stop Using Perl
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 05, 2015 at 23:46 UTC
    Thanks for your work maintaining CGI.pm! Thumbs up!

    CGI.pm helped building the internet and this design to return a list in list context was perfectly OK back then. One can't predict all edge cases and get a project running.

    And after features are released you're bound to backwards compatibility.

    It's unfortunate that => wasn't designed as a scalar operator in Perl.

    And it's also not CGI's fault that methods like DBI->quote can't propagate signatures.

    As I said not all edge cases are predictable.

    Cheers Rolf

    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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Re^5: Stop Using Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 05, 2015 at 22:00 UTC

    something constructive!

    Didn't I just try to do that?

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      Didn't I just try to do that?

      Well... it's more constructive if you raise issues against the git repo on github (if you're really concerned about the issues). I only discovered this thread because i occasionally google "perl CGI" and limit to recent hits. I could have easily missed it.

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        Didn't I just try to do that? Well... it's more constructive if you raise issues against the git repo on github (if you're really concerned about the issues). I only discovered this thread because i occasionally google "perl CGI" and limit to recent hits. I could have easily missed it.

        Certainly ... I don't know if you think they're "issues" ... so whatever you want to do is fine with me :)

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