On Sun Jan 29 11:33:06 2012, aristotle wrote:
> * demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> [2012-01-19 13:05]:
> > I consider the piece of code you pointed out to most unperlish, and an
> > affront to the community and the spirit of CPAN.
>
> From some angles I can see a justification. It may well be that users
> direct questions about breakage caused by module Bâs too-clever use of
> module A to the author of module A, instead of the author of module B.
>
> In such a case I can understand upstream lashing back against something
> done downstream.
>
> I have seen such situations occur many times in the wider libre software
> community. Bad blood of one kind or another is *inevitable* when they
> happen.
>
> From what I know so far of this particular situation (which amounts to
> very little), Marcâs reaction was not motivated by actual misdirected
> support burden. In that case it does seem like, ahem, a Richard move.
The real irony is that AnyEvent itself abuses Perl similarly by messing
with ${^WARNING_BITS}.
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Father Chrysostomos
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