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• Reinventing the wheel (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  Isn't there a module for this? Your mistake is in writing your own buggy code instead of using somebody's better tested module. :P

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Abigail (26)

    I've no idea whether there's a module for this. But I'm pretty sure locating the module, reading the documentation, and convincing myself the module does what I want, and is bugfree would take longer than writing and debugging a few lines myself.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by BinGOs (7246)

      Speaking of wheels, this seems an ideal candidate for a POE [cpan.org] session and POE::Wheel::FollowTail.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Abigail (26)

        Somehow it feels wrong to install a rather large selection of modules only to shave off a few lines of a less than 100 line stand alone script.
        • shave off lines (Reinventing the wheel) (Score:1)

          by shmem (7558) on 2006.12.23 7:20 (#52478)

          ... specially if shaving off a few lines means writing others (probably as much as you've saved), from which at first glance you absolutely won't get what the heck they are about, and what's going on behind the scenes: that's the wrong way of abstraction.

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