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}. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=108470