[Classiccity-pm] How big is CGI.pm?

[Mark Hazen]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:

> Yeah, I can really see how there could be a tree of smaller modules like
> CGI::Form, CGI::Request, etc., instead of one big thing.

There's a blurb in the perldoc about this, saying that there's a lot of 
code in CGI.pm that LWP duplicates or reimplements, and maybe CGI.pm could 
be rewritten to leverage LWP's code. This doesn't solve the problem 
however, because you're still stuck with the monolithic nature, so I can 
understand why Lincoln Stein doesn't bother. Oh well.


>  The only thing that CGI.pm provides that I like to use is ->param.

Nod, specifically for multiselector lists. Sometimes I'll just get a wild
hair and use split, though. :)

Cheers,

-mh.
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