Isn't that just a way of saying that we reach for the stars by standing on the shoulders of giants?
>-----Original Message----- >From: Johan Vromans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:44 AM >To: module-authors@perl.org >Subject: Re: lambda - a shortcut for sub {...} > >"Bill Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What worries me is someone's gonna submit an otherwise useful module >> to CPAN that uses this feature. > >Unfortunately, that is inherent to the nature of CPAN. > >Personally, I have to reject many potential useful CPAN modules >because they use a plethora of other modules that most of the time are >not even related to the problem at hand. > >For example: I need functionality A. CPAN module Foo implements A, but >also B. For B, it needs 891 other CPAN modules, with their >dependencies. In this case, I try to isolate the A functionality and >copy it to my own code. > >An associated issue (that has been raised here before) is related to >modules that need a whole bunch of CPAN modules just for building and >testing. > >As I said, that is inherent to the nature of CPAN. > >-- Johan >
