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Oh, I don't know... (Score:2)

by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2004.03.21 7:19 (#29496) Journal

Since it says it's inspired by IO::All [perl.com], I'm not convinced it's all that bad.
What makes one man brilliant and the other one a crackpot? What, for example, would people think of most of Damian's modules [cpan.org], most notably Quantum::Superpositions [cpan.org], if they weren't originating from him? Not much good, I'm sure...

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- Re:Oh, I don't know... (Score:2)
  
  by autarch (914)
  
  Quantum::Superpositions is actually quite a useful module. Basically, it provides a number of operators for doing set operations over sets of scalars. The name is, admittedly, a rather silly joke (though his talk on it was brilliant), but the core functionality is useful. That's why in Perl 6 this functionality will be part of the core language, but renamed as "junction operators" (aka, set operators).
  
  Ingy's IO::All is clever because it takes a single large domain (I/O), and provides a DWIMmy, unified A

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