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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:18:03PM +0000, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Richard Foley <Richard.Foley <at> rfi.net> writes: >> > On Thursday 20 March 2008 00:00:13 Paul Johnson wrote: >> > > I suppose that's the price to be paid for writing code that lives >> > > outside of the core whilst maintaining a rather incestuous relationship >> > > with the core itself. >> >> > Is that a good reason to move Devel::Cover into the core? >> >> IMO... >> >> absolutely. > > I very much appreciate the sentiment and reasoning behind this idea, but > I'd hate to do anything which raised the bar on people wanting to write > interesting, useful or just plain cool code. Having to keep > Devel::Cover running through such changes comes under that heading for > me. I cry a little every time the core changes and breaks my code that depended on stuff. I almost swore off Perl 5's guts last fall due to it. I was eventually sucked back in. It's still a sad place to be. Perl 5 guts are hard enough without it changing shape periodically. JoshThread Previous | Thread Next