use perl5:CGI as a solution (was: Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)
Aankhen wrote: The major feeling was that there should be no CGI.pm (if someone was hellbent on using it, they could use the Perl 5 module). In theory, use perl5:CGI could be a fine solution. In practice, it hasn't worked out well for me. Even something that seems simple like passing a hashref to Perl 5 is not documented now. In summary, I found it easier to update CGI.pm p6 to meet my needs than to 'use perl5:CGI' to meet my needs. I think the reality it is yet to been seen now well calls to Perl 5 modules can work for the general case. Mark
use perl5:CGI as a solution (was: Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)
Aankhen wrote: The major feeling was that there should be no CGI.pm (if someone was hellbent on using it, they could use the Perl 5 module). In theory, use perl5:CGI could be a fine solution. In practice, it hasn't worked out well for me. Even something that seems simple like passing a hashref to Perl 5 is not documented now. In summary, I found it easier to update CGI.pm p6 to meet my needs than to 'use perl5:CGI' to meet my needs. I think the reality it is yet to been seen now well calls to Perl 5 modules can work for the general case. Mark
