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• Schwern's modules (Score:1)

  by clscott (4354)

  Some (most? all) of Schwern's modules have interesting "true values" at the end instead of the plain boring old
  1;
  
  I'm pretty sure that he's not the only one but his are the first I ever noticed.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jk2addict (4946)

    Ha ha.....Class::Virtual...

    return "Club sandwich";
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Abigail (26)

    For a while I had the habit of returning the POD segment as the return value of the module. Not sure if any such module still lurks on CPAN.
• I've had a PAUSE id for a long time... (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  ... so I can tell you first hand why it took so long (I don't know, a year or so) to upload my first module.
  
  It's because of perfectionism. I wanted my first upload to be right, I was afraid to do a bad first one, so it actually took me a long time to pull myself together and actually upload something. I hope the threshold for the next ones will be lower...
  
  I'm sure that quite a few of people with PAUSE ids but no module are feeling the same: afraid to make a fool of themselves.
  • Re:I’ve had a PAUSE id for a long time... (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    Yep! I can attest that.
• Bender (Score:1)

  by jk2addict (4946)

  While not on CPAN, I've always been fond of the Futurama/Bender quotes in the SlashCode.
• Two of my own and one more general (Score:2)

  by Damian (784)

  The docs for Coy [cpan.org] are written in haiku.

  The head1's in the docs for Lingua::Romana::Perligata [cpan.org] are in Latin.

  Try this:

  http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=blah%20blah%20blah [cpan.org]

  and see how many results you get.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by hfb (74)

    What now doctor? Being coy about Acme::Bleach starting a hot new trend of seeing who could upload the next Acme module to outdo the last? :)
• namespace wars (Score:1)

  by mr_bean (3802)

  I'd like some stories of namespace conflict that has occurred. What are the human stories behind the computer face?
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Abigail (26)

    Not really a namespace conflict, but certainly namespace related. For years, one of my modules wasn't indexed. Reason: one of the components of the name contains 17 characters, and the indexing software couldn't cope with that.
• The Whatif Documentation (Score:1)

  by muttley (1599)

  Bad form to pimp your ownb stuff, I know but I've always been fond of the documentation and README for Whatif [cpan.org] It includes the disclaimer "This software is under no warranty and will probably destroy your life, kill your friends, burn your house and bring about the apocalypse."
• Heroic, valiant efforts (Score:1)

  by DAxelrod (4649)

  How about the tale of how cascade failure resulting in a thrid of CPAN being uninstallable was averted?

  For more info see:

  • The p5p summary [perl.org] (Look at the "New Core Module Releases" section and the comments on that use.perl entry)
  • The qa mailing list thread [mail-archive.com] on which the problem was discussed
  • Schwern's postortem [perl.org] (yay, happy endings!)