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@pali turning on mysql_enable_utf8 has been the least broken option for handling unicode with DBD::mysql for over a decade. It's been basically standard for e.g. any DBIx::Class app that uses...

There's also already a Net::HTTP::Spore in perl I'd really love to see this become a unified standard rather than reimplementing JSON instead of code :)

@nrdvana @boftx we've been thrashing this out on IRC and cpan for-fscking-ever and basically - I totally appreciate where both of you are coming from in theory, but in practice...

The policy should be either disabled by default or deleted entirely, since when constructing e.g. arguments for a database update following the policy you can completely nard up the hash...

> The way Perl has been used has changed since Perl Best Practices was first published Honestly, even when it was published it very much reflected Damian's experiences giving training...

Leaving it in the dist for people who want it to still use it seems perfectly reasonable - my concern is for newbies, anybody doing deliberate customisation is likely to...

@petdance that sounds great, but I still worry a bit about people "fixing" based on the message alone, hence my thought about downgrading the severity - I think given the...

Right, it's make_env that does the copying. I'm basically suggesting that make_env instead creates a chain, so it keeps a reference to the 'outer' environment and looks things up by...

Ah _fsck_ I read it based on Object.create being a copy constructor ... of _course_ it takes a prototype and just chains a new object off it. I'll adjust my...

I've just added such a set! plus a test for the let+while+set! combo described above; turned out to be as trivial as I hoped once I fixed the scoping model....