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There's a place for patches (Score:2)

by rafael (2125)

Or even several:
- the RT queue for List::Util (http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Scalar-List-Utils)
- Graham, directly
- perl5-porters, since it's a core module
- Horrified (Score:1)
  
  by mr_bean (3802)
  
  I don't think the man page should be changed. I would oppose the real application of this patch. I like it the way it is expressed as it is. I don't even feel the grammatically correct version is more understandable by people whose first language isn't English.
  
  I am an English teacher. I just found myself thinking how to reformulate the thing.
  
  I am beginning to think my joke has backfired.
Ah, wordsmithing (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)
1. “C<List::Util> contains a selection of subroutines that people have wanted in the Perl core, but whose usage and size wouldn’t justify a keyword or an individual extension.”
  
  This strays quite a bit from the original wording, but conserves all its meaning while being shorter and much simpler.
2. “The following additions have been requested but are so simple to implement in Perl that I have been reluctant to add them.”
  This the exactly same as the original, except that I s

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