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<a href="/dist/LWP-JSON-Tiny">
LWP-JSON-Tiny</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/LWP-JSON-Tiny/">0.014</a>)
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I'm not sure this really "befits a ::Tiny distribution" just because it's a thin wrapper of something. Please read: <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/dan_muey/2014/08/please-dont-use-tiny-unless-it-meets-the-tiny-criteria-thanks.html" re...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-15T07:36:16
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<a href="/dist/Acme-CPANRatings">
Acme-CPANRatings</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Acme-CPANRatings/">0.001</a>)
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After the last template change of the website which is one year ago, "Was this review helpful" links no longer works. <a href="https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/issues/232" rel="nofollow">github.com/perlorg/perlweb/issues/232</a>
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-10T04:09:50
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<a href="/dist/Finance-Currency-Convert-WebserviceX">
Finance-Currency-Convert-WebserviceX</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Finance-Currency-Convert-WebserviceX/">0.07001</a>)
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No longer works. Sigh, looks like there is currently NO working generic currency converter module on CPAN anymore. Every converter module is either: 1) dead; 2) specific for some currencies only.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-09T12:12:39
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<a href="/dist/Finance-Currency-Convert">
Finance-Currency-Convert</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Finance-Currency-Convert/">1.08</a>)
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Uses hard-coded rates in the source code. Does not seem to work anymore: convert() returns zero even after updateRates().
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-09T12:07:23
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<a href="/dist/Finance-Currency-Convert-XE">
Finance-Currency-Convert-XE</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Finance-Currency-Convert-XE/">0.25</a>)
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Of limited use because of the site's restrictive license. UPDATE: And it no longer works.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-09T12:03:02
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<a href="/dist/Finance-Currency-Convert-Yahoo">
Finance-Currency-Convert-Yahoo</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Finance-Currency-Convert-Yahoo/">0.2</a>)
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No longer works (not a surprise since this module has not been updated since almost 13 years ago).
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2018-05-09T12:01:27
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App-used</a>
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Uses simple regex instead of properly parses Perl source code (PPI, Compiler::Lexer) so potentially lots of false positives. Better use existing solutions like Perl::PrereqScanner or Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite, which already come with their own CLI's.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-11-19T09:37:56
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<a href="/dist/Net-FTPServer">
Net-FTPServer</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Net-FTPServer/">1.122</a>)
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Currently the only "real" module to create FTP servers in Perl. My suggestion would be to separate the Perl API documentation vs using the ftpd*.pl script, as the Net::FTPServer documentation currently mixes the two.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-11-09T12:36:14
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<a href="/dist/Games-Sudoku-CLI">
Games-Sudoku-CLI</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Games-Sudoku-CLI/">0.02</a>)
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Early release, so not polished yet, but... cool! Thanks, Gabor. We need more CLI games!
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-10-26T11:08:06
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PPR</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/PPR/">0.000011</a>)
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The coolest thing since PPI. Now every time someone still says that one can't parse HTML or balanced parentheses using regex, you can just point him to this module to shut him up (although, if he had said that one *shouldn't*...).
<br><br>Also now yo...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-08-17T22:44:07
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DBIx-Compare</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/DBIx-Compare/">1.7</a>)
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Use MySQL-specific SQL dialect "SHOW TABLES" so comparing e.g. two SQLite database is an instant fail, even though there is DBIx::Compare::SQLite. Instead of the common convention like DBIx::Compare->new(...), uses db_comparison->new(...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-08-13T00:56:10
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Perl-Critic</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Critic/">1.130</a>)
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Hey, Perl::Critic has not been reviewed for quite a while...
<br><br>Finally take the plunge (again) to include Perl::Critic in my development work, this time adding critic test in the Dist::Zilla release process. Already caught a couple of stupid bu...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-08-01T03:51:23
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<a href="/dist/Config-Perl">
Config-Perl</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Perl/">0.06</a>)
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Rating Data::Undump::PPI, which currently lives inside Config-Perl:
<br><br>Of course this is a nice proof of concept, but for "real world" usage, look at Data::Undump which is about 2000x faster :)
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-07-31T18:12:27
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<a href="/dist/Array-Contains">
Array-Contains</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Array-Contains/">2.7</a>)
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Requires perl 5.20 for no particular reason. Claims to be replacement of smart match but only covers string comparison. Just use List::Util's first() which is more flexible and part of the core Perl distribution, or match::smart which covers more cas...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-07-28T04:54:58
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<a href="/dist/Array-Unique">
Array-Unique</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Array-Unique/">0.08</a>)
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Mostly unnecessary because this is just a glorified form of a widely known Perl idiom. Requires perl 5.20 for no particular reason. Re-sorts the list which is 99% not what user wants. Just use List::Util's uniq() which is faster and part of core dist...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-07-28T04:50:09
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Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ReadmeFromPod</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ReadmeFromPod/">0.35</a>)
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Has some problems, e.g. it uses InstallTool phase so it conflicts with DZP:StaticInstall when wanting to produce a static install distro. Use alternatives like the simpler DZP:Pod2Readme or the more complex DZP:ReadmeAnyFromPod.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-07-06T19:52:51
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Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Hook</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Hook/">v0.8.3</a>)
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Great for debugging. Just whip up some code in dist.ini to e.g. dump & print some stuffs, etc.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-07-06T19:26:55
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<a href="/dist/File-Tail-Dir">
File-Tail-Dir</a>
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Interesting features, but mooseware.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-06-08T07:21:03
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<a href="/dist/Algorithm-Dependency">
Algorithm-Dependency</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Algorithm-Dependency/">1.110</a>)
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Happily returns result when graph is cyclic (and thus proper topological sorting cannot be done). See also Data::Graph::Util for a simpler alternative.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-04-03T04:25:43
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<a href="/dist/Data-Match">
Data-Match</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Match/">0.06</a>)
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(Reviewing Sort::Topological, which is included in Data-Match distribution at the time of this review).
<br><br>Hangs when given a dependency like: a => ["a"]. Happily returns result when graph is cyclic (and thus proper topological sort...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-04-03T04:23:55
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File-Find-Wanted</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/File-Find-Wanted/">1.00</a>)
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File::Find lacks the "making easy things easy" part, so modules like this are great. A further step would be an option to omit $wanted for even simpler cases, but that would probably break the interface. Another alternative is File::Finder,...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-03-02T06:30:56
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Hash-MD5</a>
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Since this is essentially md5(dump($data)), why restrict yourself to hash? This works also for any kind of Perl data structure.
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DateTime-Format-Docker</a>
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Isn't this basically ISO8601 (see DateTime::Format::ISO8601)?
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To get the ratings for a single distribution, this client library needs to download /csv/all_ratings.csv (~80KB at the time of this writing) first. This is not the fault of the client because the website indeed does not provide the necessary ratings ...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2017-01-23T07:21:39
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Not as useful as the name implies. It requires you to download the CSV of all ratings first, which BTW does not seem to be advertised on the CPAN Ratings website. The CSV file only contains numeric ratings and does not include any reviews. So basical...
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This pure-perl module creates a shallow copy of the object instead of directly removing blessing from the same object (which requires XS). Acme::Damn is the more direct counterpart of bless().
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Still works, partially, but in general out of date. For example, to get post the deprecated metaWeblog.getPost API method is still used instead of the newer wp.getPost call (which understandably is only introduced in WordPress 3.4, while this module ...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-11-04T17:07:47
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My new favorite Levenshtein distance module. It's as fast (if not faster) than Text::Levenshtein::XS and can provide a speed boost if you don't care about distances above a certain limit. Which I think in many cases is true.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-10-14T01:23:30
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Great and all, but one drawback is that it currently destroys original file's formatting in serialize().
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-10-09T04:46:32
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NetObj-IPv4Address</a>
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Cons: more heavyweight (requires Moo), limited operations/methods, can only handle IPv4 and not IPv6. Pros: some operations are faster than competing modules, e.g. validation. See also: NetAddr::IP, Net::CIDR.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-08-13T05:28:42
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NetObj-MacAddress</a>
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Aside from being Moo-based (which, makes it a bit more heavyweight and with more dependencies), doesn't yet offer anything extra or more methods compared to previously existing modules like NetAddr::MAC.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-08-13T05:18:09
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Acme-AsciiArtinator</a>
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Cool. Now you can create your own Camel Code with ease!
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-07-28T19:07:16
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<a href="/dist/Object-Simple">
Object-Simple</a>
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Object-Simple/">3.16</a>)
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I'd say in terms of footprint and runtime performance, this module is average (it's not the most lightweight nor the fastest pure-perl object system, not to mention against XS ones). See my Bencher::Scenarios::Accessors for a comparison, e.g. <a href...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-06-23T07:18:10
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Test-Needs</a>
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Nice. API is more convenient to use than Test::Requires, especially if you use subtests.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-05-18T04:20:31
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HTTP-Command-Wrapper</a>
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There are a few use-cases where this would be useful (mostly, to access https websites in the absence of required perl library like LWP::Protocol::https), but it would be more useful to provide an API that is already familiar to Perl programmers. Tha...
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Tie-Scalar-Callback</a>
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<blockquote class="review_text">
There is a prior art Tie::Simple (created in 2004) which works for scalar as well as the other types of ties that perl supports (array, hash, handle).
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-01-26T18:22:52
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JSON-Create</a>
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Review for 0.02: Performance-wise, still has some catching up to do against JSON::XS & Cpanel::JSON::XS with regards to encoding arrays & hashes.
<br><br>UPDATE review for 0.19: Giving it 4 stars now. Speed has been improving and on-par/sligh...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2016-01-22T02:22:38
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Confirming previous reviewer, the module is a lot slower (~ 20-40x) than other alternatives like Array::Utils or List::MoreUtils when you want to perform basic set operations like union/intersect/diff/symmetric diff.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-11-13T03:37:42
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Exporter-Easy</a>
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I can see the value of Exporter::Easy (although these days the saving in typing is not as big, with plain Exporter one can just say: use Exporter 'import'; our @EXPORT = qw(a b c)).
<br><br>However I fail to see the value of Exporter::Easiest. I'd ra...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-11-11T23:15:59
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Due to parallel processes and defaulting on no_test, can be several times faster than cpanminus (tried installing a module on a vanilla perlbrew instance with local CPAN mirror, which pulled +- 200 distributions, "cpanm -n" took 2m9s, while...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-10-16T07:19:20
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<a href="/dist/Zodiac-Chinese">
Zodiac-Chinese</a>
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From the doc: "This module generates one's Chinese zodiac. However, for those born in late January to early February, it may be wrong." Well, a module that might return wrong results is not very useful.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-10-03T09:26:37
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<a href="/dist/JSON-MultiValueOrdered">
JSON-MultiValueOrdered</a>
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<img src="//cdn.perl.org/perlweb/cpanratings/images/stars-5.0.png" alt="*****">
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I guess if you want to switch JSON implementation more easily with JSON, JSON::PP, and JSON::XS, it's better to use JSON::Tiny::Subclassable instead of JSON::Tiny, because the interface is more similar to JSON{::XS,::PP}, although it's not exactly th...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-09-30T03:31:32
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JSON-Tiny</a>
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Ah, the many JSON implementation modules out there...
<br><br>I guess if you want to switch JSON implementation more easily with JSON, JSON::PP, and JSON::XS, it's better to use JSON::Tiny::Subclassable instead of JSON::Tiny, because the interface i...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-09-30T03:30:18
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Devel-Confess</a>
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Provides some more features compared to Carp::Always, like producing stack trace even when exception is ref/object, color & dump function arguments (so you don't need a separate Carp::Always::Dump and Carp::Always::Color). Recommended.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-06-18T21:32:23
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Carp-Always</a>
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This module works well for string exceptions (e.g. die "some message"), but for ref/object exceptions (e.g. die [404,"Not found"] or die $some_object) it will simply print/return the ref/object and thus no stack trace information ...
<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_knop/2013/09/carp-always-evenobjects.html" rel="nofollow">blogs.perl.org/users/graham_knop/2013...</a>
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Lingua-EN-Inflect</a>
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Just add this review to link to Ben Bullock's Lingua::EN::PluralToSingular if you need to go the other way (converting English noun from plural to singular).
<br><br>BTW, I don't like the interface either, and wonder why the Env module needs to be in...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-04-01T19:43:51
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Lingua-EN-PluralToSingular</a>
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Not perfect or exhaustive, but good enough and lightweight. With a dead-simple interface. Just the sort of libraries that are reusable almost everywhere. Thanks for this.
<br><br>Also, this might not be immediately obvious since there's no mention on...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-04-01T18:58:19
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Log-Declare</a>
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I haven't used or evaluated this module in detail, but if there is one advantage to using procedural/command syntax:
<br><br>info blah;
<br><br>as opposed to object syntax:
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-03-24T04:17:14
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Getargs-Long</a>
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Nice idea, but some performance concerns. If you want to use cgetargs (the compiled, faster version), you are restricted to the getargs() interface, which only features checking for required arguments and supplying default value. In which case you mi...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-03-23T00:19:32
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Not as easy as the name might claim. First of all, why do users need to pass __LINE__ explicitly for every call??? Other logging modules will get this information automatically via caller().
<br><br>Levels are a bit confusing: why is debug split to ...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-03-22T23:15:12
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File-Slurper</a>
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Who'da thought that something as seemingly simple as "slurping a file into a string" would need several modules and false starts? Well, if you add encodings, Perl I/O layers, scalar/list context, DWIM-ness, ... it can get complex and buggy....
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-03-12T04:21:51
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File-Slurp</a>
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Use the newer File::Slurper instead, which has a clearer API (e.g. text vs binary, array/lines vs string) and encoding default. It's arguably "saner" than File::Slurp and File::Slurp::Tiny.
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File-Slurp-Tiny</a>
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Use the newer File::Slurper instead, which has a clearer API (e.g. text vs binary, array/lines vs string) and encoding default. It's arguably "saner" than File::Slurp and File::Slurp::Tiny.
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-03-12T04:15:19
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Perl-PrereqScanner-Lite</a>
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A significantly faster alternative to Perl::PrereqScanner. It's *almost* a drop-in replacement, there might still be some bugs in missing detecting some modules, and you still have to do several add_extra_scanner() calls like $scanner->add_extra_s...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-02-23T23:43:09
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Logfile-Rotate</a>
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First file rotating module I found and tried. Works, but needs to be modernized a bit. Indirect object notation in doc should be replaced. Bool option takes "yes" or "no", should perhaps be 1 or 0. Capitalization adjustment, perha...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2015-02-21T05:46:08
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File-ReadBackwards</a>
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At the time of this review, I find two modules for reading a file backwards: File::Bidirectional (FBidi) and File::ReadBackwards (FRB).
<br><br>Both modules have roughly the same footprint and minimal dependencies. Both provide OO as well as tie inte...
- FRB is 15-20% faster than FBidi when reading backwards;
<br><br>FRB con's:
<br>
- does not offer the feature of reading forward as well, but of course this is not the goal of the module.
<br><br>FBidi's POD contains information on benchmarks (it's roughly an order of magnitude slower than raw Perl's open+read/diamond operator, s...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2014-11-30T01:07:14
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File-Bidirectional</a>
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At the time of this review, I find two modules for reading a file backwards: File::Bidirectional (FBidi) and File::ReadBackwards (FRB).
<br><br>Both modules have roughly the same footprint and minimal dependencies. Both provide OO as well as tie inte...
- has the unique feature of reading backward/forward and switch direction in the middle;
<br><br>FBidi con's:
<br>
- FBidi is 15-20% slower than FBidi when reading backwards;
<br>
- reading forward is just as slow as backward, so if you only need to read forward, obviously there's no need to use this module;
<br><br>FBidi's POD contains information on benchmarks (it's roughly an order of magnitude slower than raw Perl's open+r...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2014-11-30T01:06:06
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Signal-StackTrace-CarpLike</a>
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Nice, but Signal::StackTrace should've output something carp-like in the first place.
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App-YTDL</a>
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Bit of a shame that we currently don't have a working YouTube download script/module (WWW::YouTube::Download is last updated 2013 and has been broken for a long while). This module actually requires another *Python* script to do its job. I might as w...
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2014-09-11T02:01:39
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XXX</a>
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The part that makes this module convenient is that the functions return their original arguments. So when debugging (peppering dump statements), you don't have to change this:
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<a href="/user/perlancar">perlancar</a> - 2014-08-29T02:09:47
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