>>>>> "DRA" == Daniel R Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  DRA> ...It would seem to me that our friends at CPAN wasn't happy with
  DRA> the joke-modules in regular-namespace, either, as XML::Simpler
  DRA> seems to have disappeared from the author's directory completely
  DRA> (?) and Inline::PERL is now ACME::Inline::PERL (which seems a
  DRA> better place to me).  I don't know if these changes were made by
  DRA> the authors or by CPAN gods, but a "thanks" is probably in order.
  DRA> In my view, jokes on (or after) April 1 are all fine and good,
  DRA> but otherwise when somebody has little reasonable expectation
  DRA> that a module will be a joke, CPAN shouldn't be giving them
  DRA> jokes.  ('Course, on another day when I'm less grumpy and hepped
  DRA> up on cold meds, I might claim otherwise. :->)

well, we do have Acme:: for all the joke modules. no one should be
fooled by a module from that namespace. all new joke modules should go
there but some want their joke to be a little more realistic and sucker
people. a joke module in Acme gives that surprise away.

uri

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