common-sense/sense.pm.PL

#! perl-000

open STDOUT, ">$ARGV[0]~"
   or die "$ARGV[0]~: $!";

our $WARN;
our $H;

BEGIN {
   $H    = $^H;
   $WARN = ${^WARNING_BITS};
}

use utf8;
use strict qw(subs vars);

no warnings;
use warnings qw(FATAL closed threads internal debugging pack malloc portable prototype
                inplace io pipe unpack deprecated glob digit printf
                layer reserved taint closure semicolon);
no warnings qw(exec newline unopened);

BEGIN {
   $H    = $^H              & ~$H;
   $WARN = ${^WARNING_BITS} & ~$WARN;
}

while (<DATA>) {
   if (/^IMPORT/) {
      print "   # use warnings\n";
      printf "   \${^WARNING_BITS} ^= \${^WARNING_BITS} ^ \"%s\";\n",
             join "", map "\\x$_", unpack "(H2)*", $WARN;
      print "   # use strict, use utf8;\n";
      printf "   \$^H |= 0x%x;\n", $H;
   } else {
      print;
   }
}

close STDOUT;
rename "$ARGV[0]~", $ARGV[0];

__DATA__

=head1 NAME

common::sense - save a tree AND a kitten, use common::sense!

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use common::sense;

 # supposed to be the same, with much lower memory usage, as:
 #
 # use utf8;
 # use strict qw(vars subs);
 # use feature qw(say state switch);
 # no warnings;
 # use warnings qw(FATAL closed threads internal debugging pack
 #                 portable prototype inplace io pipe unpack malloc
 #                 deprecated glob digit printf layer
 #                 reserved taint closure semicolon);
 # no warnings qw(exec newline unopened);


=head1 DESCRIPTION

   “Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks
   he needs more of it than he already has.”

   – René Descartes

This module implements some sane defaults for Perl programs, as defined by
two typical (or not so typical - use your common sense) specimens of Perl
coders. In fact, after working out details on which warnings and strict
modes to enable and make fatal, we found that we (and our code written so
far, and others) fully agree on every option, even though we never used
warnings before, so it seems this module indeed reflects a "common" sense
among some long-time Perl coders.

The basic philosophy behind the choices made in common::sense can be
summarised as: "enforcing strict policies to catch as many bugs as
possible, while at the same time, not limiting the expressive power
available to the programmer".

Two typical examples of how this philosophy is applied in practise is the
handling of uninitialised and malloc warnings:

=over 4

=item I<uninitialised>

C<undef> is a well-defined feature of perl, and enabling warnings for
using it rarely catches any bugs, but considerably limits you in what you
can do, so uninitialised warnings are disabled.

=item I<malloc>

Freeing something twice on the C level is a serious bug, usually causing
memory corruption. It often leads to side effects much later in the
program and there are no advantages to not reporting this, so malloc
warnings are fatal by default.

=back

Unfortunately, there is no fine-grained warning control in perl, so often
whole groups of useful warnings had to be excluded because of a single
useless warning (for example, perl puts an arbitrary limit on the length
of text you can match with some regexes before emitting a warning, making
the whole C<regexp> category useless).

What follows is a more thorough discussion of what this module does,
and why it does it, and what the advantages (and disadvantages) of this
approach are.

=head1 RATIONALE

=over 4

=item use utf8

While it's not common sense to write your programs in UTF-8, it's quickly
becoming the most common encoding, is the designated future default
encoding for perl sources, and the most convenient encoding available
(you can do really nice quoting tricks...). Experience has shown that our
programs were either all pure ascii or utf-8, both of which will stay the
same.

There are few drawbacks to enabling UTF-8 source code by default (mainly
some speed hits due to bugs in older versions of perl), so this module
enables UTF-8 source code encoding by default.


=item use strict qw(subs vars)

Using C<use strict> is definitely common sense, but C<use strict
'refs'> definitely overshoots its usefulness. After almost two
decades of Perl hacking, we decided that it does more harm than being
useful. Specifically, constructs like these:

   @{ $var->[0] }

Must be written like this (or similarly), when C<use strict 'refs'> is in
scope, and C<$var> can legally be C<undef>:

   @{ $var->[0] || [] }

This is annoying, and doesn't shield against obvious mistakes such as
using C<"">, so one would even have to write (at least for the time
being):

   @{ defined $var->[0] ? $var->[0] : [] }

... which nobody with a bit of common sense would consider
writing: clear code is clearly something else.

Curiously enough, sometimes perl is not so strict, as this works even with
C<use strict> in scope:

   for (@{ $var->[0] }) { ...

If that isn't hypocrisy! And all that from a mere program!


=item use feature qw(say state given)

We found it annoying that we always have to enable extra features. If
something breaks because it didn't anticipate future changes, so be
it. 5.10 broke almost all our XS modules and nobody cared either (or at
least I know of nobody who really complained about gratuitous changes -
as opposed to bugs).

Few modules that are not actively maintained work with newer versions of
Perl, regardless of use feature or not, so a new major perl release means
changes to many modules - new keywords are just the tip of the iceberg.

If your code isn't alive, it's dead, Jim - be an active maintainer.

But nobody forces you to use those extra features in modules meant for
older versions of perl - common::sense of course works there as well.
There is also an important other mode where having additional features by
default is useful: commandline hacks and internal use scripts: See "much
reduced typing", below.


=item no warnings, but a lot of new errors

Ah, the dreaded warnings. Even worse, the horribly dreaded C<-w>
switch: Even though we don't care if other people use warnings (and
certainly there are useful ones), a lot of warnings simply go against the
spirit of Perl.

Most prominently, the warnings related to C<undef>. There is nothing wrong
with C<undef>: it has well-defined semantics, it is useful, and spitting
out warnings you never asked for is just evil.

The result was that every one of our modules did C<no warnings> in the
past, to avoid somebody accidentally using and forcing his bad standards
on our code. Of course, this switched off all warnings, even the useful
ones. Not a good situation. Really, the C<-w> switch should only enable
warnings for the main program only.

Funnily enough, L<perllexwarn> explicitly mentions C<-w> (and not in a
favourable way, calling it outright "wrong"), but standard utilities, such
as L<prove>, or MakeMaker when running C<make test>, still enable them
blindly.

For version 2 of common::sense, we finally sat down a few hours and went
through I<every single warning message>, identifiying - according to
common sense - all the useful ones.

This resulted in the rather impressive list in the SYNOPSIS. When we
weren't sure, we didn't include the warning, so the list might grow in
the future (we might have made a mistake, too, so the list might shrink
as well).

Note the presence of C<FATAL> in the list: we do not think that the
conditions caught by these warnings are worthy of a warning, we I<insist>
that they are worthy of I<stopping> your program, I<instantly>. They are
I<bugs>!

Therefore we consider C<common::sense> to be much stricter than C<use
warnings>, which is good if you are into strict things (we are not,
actually, but these things tend to be subjective).

After deciding on the list, we ran the module against all of our code that
uses C<common::sense> (that is almost all of our code), and found only one
occurence where one of them caused a problem: one of elmex's (unreleased)
modules contained:

   $fmt =~ s/([^\s\[]*)\[( [^\]]* )\]/\x0$1\x1$2\x0/xgo;

We quickly agreed that indeed the code should be changed, even though it
happened to do the right thing when the warning was switched off.


=item much reduced typing

Especially with version 2.0 of common::sense, the amount of boilerplate
code you need to add to gte I<this> policy is daunting. Nobody would write
this out in throwaway scripts, commandline hacks or in quick internal-use
scripts.

By using common::sense you get a defined set of policies (ours, but maybe
yours, too, if you accept them), and they are easy to apply to your
scripts: typing C<use common::sense;> is even shorter than C<use warnings;
use strict; use feature ...>.

And you can immediately use the features of your installed perl, which
is more difficult in code you release, but not usually an issue for
internal-use code (downgrades of your production perl should be rare,
right?).


=item mucho reduced memory usage

Just using all those pragmas mentioned in the SYNOPSIS together wastes
<blink>I<< B<776> kilobytes >></blink> of precious memory in my perl, for
I<every single perl process using our code>, which on our machines, is a
lot. In comparison, this module only uses I<< B<four> >> kilobytes (I even
had to write it out so it looks like more) of memory on the same platform.

The money/time/effort/electricity invested in these gigabytes (probably
petabytes globally!) of wasted memory could easily save 42 trees, and a
kitten!

Unfortunately, until everybods applies more common sense, there will still
often be modules that pull in the monster pragmas. But one can hope...

=cut

package common::sense;

our $VERSION = '3.4';

# overload should be included

sub import {
IMPORT
   # use feature
   $^H{feature_switch} =
   $^H{feature_say}    =
   $^H{feature_state}  = 1;
}

1;

=back

=head1 THERE IS NO 'no common::sense'!!!! !!!! !!

This module doesn't offer an unimport. First of all, it wastes even more
memory, second, and more importantly, who with even a bit of common sense
would want no common sense?

=head1 STABILITY AND FUTURE VERSIONS

Future versions might change just about everything in this module. We
might test our modules and upload new ones working with newer versions of
this module, and leave you standing in the rain because we didn't tell
you. In fact, we did so when switching from 1.0 to 2.0, which enabled gobs
of warnings, and made them FATAL on top.

Maybe we will load some nifty modules that try to emulate C<say> or so
with perls older than 5.10 (this module, of course, should work with older
perl versions - supporting 5.8 for example is just common sense at this
time. Maybe not in the future, but of course you can trust our common
sense to be consistent with, uhm, our opinion).

=head1 WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS MODULE

apeiron

   "... wow"
   "I hope common::sense is a joke."

crab

   "i wonder how it would be if joerg schilling wrote perl modules."

Adam Kennedy

   "Very interesting, efficient, and potentially something I'd use all the time."
   [...]
   "So no common::sense for me, alas."

H.Merijn Brand

   "Just one more reason to drop JSON::XS from my distribution list"

Pista Palo

   "Something in short supply these days..."

Steffen Schwigon

   "This module is quite for sure *not* just a repetition of all the other
   'use strict, use warnings'-approaches, and it's also not the opposite.
   [...] And for its chosen middle-way it's also not the worst name ever.
   And everything is documented."

BKB

   "[Deleted - thanks to Steffen Schwigon for pointing out this review was
   in error.]"

Somni

   "the arrogance of the guy"
   "I swear he tacked somenoe else's name onto the module
   just so he could use the royal 'we' in the documentation"

Anonymous Monk

   "You just gotta love this thing, its got META.json!!!"

dngor

   "Heh.  '"<elmex at ta-sa.org>"'  The quotes are semantic
   distancing from that e-mail address."

Jerad Pierce

   "Awful name (not a proper pragma), and the SYNOPSIS doesn't tell you
   anything either. Nor is it clear what features have to do with "common
   sense" or discipline."

acme

   "THERE IS NO 'no common::sense'!!!! !!!! !!"

apeiron (meta-comment about us commenting^Wquoting his comment)

   "How about quoting this: get a clue, you fucktarded amoeba."

quanth

   "common sense is beautiful, json::xs is fast, Anyevent, EV are fast and
   furious. I love mlehmannware ;)"

apeiron

   "... it's mlehmann's view of what common sense is. His view of common
   sense is certainly uncommon, insofar as anyone with a clue disagrees
   with him."

apeiron (another meta-comment)

   "apeiron wonders if his little informant is here to steal more quotes"

ew73

   "... I never got past the SYNOPSIS before calling it shit."
   [...]
   How come no one ever quotes me. :("

=head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Or frequently-come-up confusions.

=over 4

=item Is this module meant to be serious?

Yes, we would have put it under the C<Acme::> namespace otherwise.

=item But the manpage is written in a funny/stupid/... way?

This was meant to make it clear that our common sense is a subjective
thing and other people can use their own notions, taking the steam out
of anybody who might be offended (as some people are always offended no
matter what you do).

This was a failure.

But we hope the manpage still is somewhat entertaining even though it
explains boring rationale.

=item Why do you impose your conventions on my code?

For some reason people keep thinking that C<common::sense> imposes
process-wide limits, even though the SYNOPSIS makes it clear that it works
like other similar modules - i.e. only within the scope that C<use>s them.

So, no, we don't - nobody is forced to use this module, and using a module
that relies on common::sense does not impose anything on you.

=item Why do you think only your notion of common::sense is valid?

Well, we don't, and have clearly written this in the documentation to
every single release. We were just faster than anybody else w.r.t. to
grabbing the namespace.

=item But everybody knows that you have to use strict and use warnings,
why do you disable them?

Well, we don't do this either - we selectively disagree with the
usefulness of some warnings over others. This module is aimed at
experienced Perl programmers, not people migrating from other languages
who might be surprised about stuff such as C<undef>. On the other hand,
this does not exclude the usefulness of this module for total newbies, due
to its strictness in enforcing policy, while at the same time not limiting
the expressive power of perl.

This module is considerably I<more> strict than the canonical C<use
strict; use warnings>, as it makes all its warnings fatal in nature, so
you can not get away with as many things as with the canonical approach.

This was not implemented in version 1.0 because of the daunting number
of warning categories and the difficulty in getting exactly the set of
warnings you wish (i.e. look at the SYNOPSIS in how complicated it is to
get a specific set of warnings - it is not reasonable to put this into
every module, the maintenance effort would be enourmous).

=item But many modules C<use strict> or C<use warnings>, so the memory
savings do not apply?

I suddenly feel sad...

But yes, that's true. Fortunately C<common::sense> still uses only a
miniscule amount of RAM.

=item But it adds another dependency to your modules!

It's a fact, yeah. But it's trivial to install, most popular modules have
many more dependencies and we consider dependencies a good thing - it
leads to better APIs, more thought about interworking of modules and so
on.

=item Why do you use JSON and not YAML for your META.yml?

This is not true - YAML supports a large subset of JSON, and this subset
is what META.yml is written in, so it would be correct to say "the
META.yml is written in a common subset of YAML and JSON".

The META.yml follows the YAML, JSON and META.yml specifications, and is
correctly parsed by CPAN, so if you have trouble with it, the problem is
likely on your side.

=item But! But!

Yeah, we know.

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

 Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
 http://home.schmorp.de/

 Robin Redeker, "<elmex at ta-sa.org>".

=cut

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1	root	1.7	#! perl-000
2	root	1.1
3			open STDOUT, ">$ARGV[0]~"
4			or die "$ARGV[0]~: $!";
5
6			our $WARN;
7			our $H;
8
9			BEGIN {
10			$H = $^H;
11			$WARN = ${^WARNING_BITS};
12			}
13
14			use utf8;
15			use strict qw(subs vars);
16
17			no warnings;
18	root	1.4	use warnings qw(FATAL closed threads internal debugging pack malloc portable prototype
19	root	1.7	inplace io pipe unpack deprecated glob digit printf
20	root	1.2	layer reserved taint closure semicolon);
21	root	1.1	no warnings qw(exec newline unopened);
22
23			BEGIN {
24			$H = $^H & ~$H;
25			$WARN = ${^WARNING_BITS} & ~$WARN;
26			}
27
28			while (<DATA>) {
29			if (/^IMPORT/) {
30			print " # use warnings\n";
31			printf " \${^WARNING_BITS} ^= \${^WARNING_BITS} ^ \"%s\";\n",
32			join "", map "\\x$_", unpack "(H2)*", $WARN;
33			print " # use strict, use utf8;\n";
34			printf " \$^H \|= 0x%x;\n", $H;
35			} else {
36			print;
37			}
38			}
39
40			close STDOUT;
41			rename "$ARGV[0]~", $ARGV[0];
42
43			__DATA__
44
45			=head1 NAME
46
47			common::sense - save a tree AND a kitten, use common::sense!
48
49			=head1 SYNOPSIS
50
51			use common::sense;
52
53			# supposed to be the same, with much lower memory usage, as:
54			#
55			# use utf8;
56			# use strict qw(vars subs);
57			# use feature qw(say state switch);
58			# no warnings;
59	root	1.7	# use warnings qw(FATAL closed threads internal debugging pack
60			# portable prototype inplace io pipe unpack malloc
61	root	1.6	# deprecated glob digit printf layer
62	root	1.2	# reserved taint closure semicolon);
63	root	1.1	# no warnings qw(exec newline unopened);
64
65	root	1.5
66	root	1.1	=head1 DESCRIPTION
67
68	root	1.5	“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks
69			he needs more of it than he already has.”
70
71			– René Descartes
72
73	root	1.1	This module implements some sane defaults for Perl programs, as defined by
74			two typical (or not so typical - use your common sense) specimens of Perl
75			coders. In fact, after working out details on which warnings and strict
76			modes to enable and make fatal, we found that we (and our code written so
77			far, and others) fully agree on every option, even though we never used
78			warnings before, so it seems this module indeed reflects a "common" sense
79			among some long-time Perl coders.
80
81			The basic philosophy behind the choices made in common::sense can be
82			summarised as: "enforcing strict policies to catch as many bugs as
83			possible, while at the same time, not limiting the expressive power
84			available to the programmer".
85
86			Two typical examples of how this philosophy is applied in practise is the
87			handling of uninitialised and malloc warnings:
88
89			=over 4
90
91			=item I<uninitialised>
92
93			C<undef> is a well-defined feature of perl, and enabling warnings for
94			using it rarely catches any bugs, but considerably limits you in what you
95			can do, so uninitialised warnings are disabled.
96
97			=item I<malloc>
98
99			Freeing something twice on the C level is a serious bug, usually causing
100			memory corruption. It often leads to side effects much later in the
101			program and there are no advantages to not reporting this, so malloc
102			warnings are fatal by default.
103
104			=back
105
106	root	1.7	Unfortunately, there is no fine-grained warning control in perl, so often
107			whole groups of useful warnings had to be excluded because of a single
108			useless warning (for example, perl puts an arbitrary limit on the length
109			of text you can match with some regexes before emitting a warning, making
110			the whole C<regexp> category useless).
111
112	root	1.1	What follows is a more thorough discussion of what this module does,
113			and why it does it, and what the advantages (and disadvantages) of this
114			approach are.
115
116			=head1 RATIONALE
117
118			=over 4
119
120			=item use utf8
121
122			While it's not common sense to write your programs in UTF-8, it's quickly
123			becoming the most common encoding, is the designated future default
124			encoding for perl sources, and the most convenient encoding available
125			(you can do really nice quoting tricks...). Experience has shown that our
126			programs were either all pure ascii or utf-8, both of which will stay the
127			same.
128
129			There are few drawbacks to enabling UTF-8 source code by default (mainly
130			some speed hits due to bugs in older versions of perl), so this module
131			enables UTF-8 source code encoding by default.
132
133
134			=item use strict qw(subs vars)
135
136			Using C<use strict> is definitely common sense, but C<use strict
137			'refs'> definitely overshoots its usefulness. After almost two
138			decades of Perl hacking, we decided that it does more harm than being
139			useful. Specifically, constructs like these:
140
141			@{ $var->[0] }
142
143			Must be written like this (or similarly), when C<use strict 'refs'> is in
144			scope, and C<$var> can legally be C<undef>:
145
146			@{ $var->[0] \|\| [] }
147
148			This is annoying, and doesn't shield against obvious mistakes such as
149			using C<"">, so one would even have to write (at least for the time
150			being):
151
152			@{ defined $var->[0] ? $var->[0] : [] }
153
154			... which nobody with a bit of common sense would consider
155			writing: clear code is clearly something else.
156
157			Curiously enough, sometimes perl is not so strict, as this works even with
158			C<use strict> in scope:
159
160			for (@{ $var->[0] }) { ...
161
162			If that isn't hypocrisy! And all that from a mere program!
163
164
165			=item use feature qw(say state given)
166
167			We found it annoying that we always have to enable extra features. If
168			something breaks because it didn't anticipate future changes, so be
169			it. 5.10 broke almost all our XS modules and nobody cared either (or at
170			least I know of nobody who really complained about gratuitous changes -
171			as opposed to bugs).
172
173			Few modules that are not actively maintained work with newer versions of
174			Perl, regardless of use feature or not, so a new major perl release means
175			changes to many modules - new keywords are just the tip of the iceberg.
176
177			If your code isn't alive, it's dead, Jim - be an active maintainer.
178
179			But nobody forces you to use those extra features in modules meant for
180			older versions of perl - common::sense of course works there as well.
181			There is also an important other mode where having additional features by
182			default is useful: commandline hacks and internal use scripts: See "much
183			reduced typing", below.
184
185
186			=item no warnings, but a lot of new errors
187
188			Ah, the dreaded warnings. Even worse, the horribly dreaded C<-w>
189			switch: Even though we don't care if other people use warnings (and
190			certainly there are useful ones), a lot of warnings simply go against the
191			spirit of Perl.
192
193			Most prominently, the warnings related to C<undef>. There is nothing wrong
194			with C<undef>: it has well-defined semantics, it is useful, and spitting
195			out warnings you never asked for is just evil.
196
197			The result was that every one of our modules did C<no warnings> in the
198			past, to avoid somebody accidentally using and forcing his bad standards
199			on our code. Of course, this switched off all warnings, even the useful
200			ones. Not a good situation. Really, the C<-w> switch should only enable
201			warnings for the main program only.
202
203			Funnily enough, L<perllexwarn> explicitly mentions C<-w> (and not in a
204			favourable way, calling it outright "wrong"), but standard utilities, such
205			as L<prove>, or MakeMaker when running C<make test>, still enable them
206			blindly.
207
208			For version 2 of common::sense, we finally sat down a few hours and went
209			through I<every single warning message>, identifiying - according to
210			common sense - all the useful ones.
211
212			This resulted in the rather impressive list in the SYNOPSIS. When we
213			weren't sure, we didn't include the warning, so the list might grow in
214			the future (we might have made a mistake, too, so the list might shrink
215			as well).
216
217			Note the presence of C<FATAL> in the list: we do not think that the
218			conditions caught by these warnings are worthy of a warning, we I<insist>
219			that they are worthy of I<stopping> your program, I<instantly>. They are
220			I<bugs>!
221
222			Therefore we consider C<common::sense> to be much stricter than C<use
223			warnings>, which is good if you are into strict things (we are not,
224			actually, but these things tend to be subjective).
225
226			After deciding on the list, we ran the module against all of our code that
227			uses C<common::sense> (that is almost all of our code), and found only one
228			occurence where one of them caused a problem: one of elmex's (unreleased)
229			modules contained:
230
231			$fmt =~ s/([^\s\[])\[( [^\]] )\]/\x0$1\x1$2\x0/xgo;
232
233			We quickly agreed that indeed the code should be changed, even though it
234			happened to do the right thing when the warning was switched off.
235
236
237			=item much reduced typing
238
239			Especially with version 2.0 of common::sense, the amount of boilerplate
240			code you need to add to gte I<this> policy is daunting. Nobody would write
241			this out in throwaway scripts, commandline hacks or in quick internal-use
242			scripts.
243
244			By using common::sense you get a defined set of policies (ours, but maybe
245			yours, too, if you accept them), and they are easy to apply to your
246			scripts: typing C<use common::sense;> is even shorter than C<use warnings;
247			use strict; use feature ...>.
248
249			And you can immediately use the features of your installed perl, which
250			is more difficult in code you release, but not usually an issue for
251			internal-use code (downgrades of your production perl should be rare,
252			right?).
253
254
255			=item mucho reduced memory usage
256
257			Just using all those pragmas mentioned in the SYNOPSIS together wastes
258			<blink>I<< B<776> kilobytes >></blink> of precious memory in my perl, for
259			I<every single perl process using our code>, which on our machines, is a
260			lot. In comparison, this module only uses I<< B<four> >> kilobytes (I even
261			had to write it out so it looks like more) of memory on the same platform.
262
263			The money/time/effort/electricity invested in these gigabytes (probably
264			petabytes globally!) of wasted memory could easily save 42 trees, and a
265			kitten!
266
267			Unfortunately, until everybods applies more common sense, there will still
268			often be modules that pull in the monster pragmas. But one can hope...
269
270			=cut
271
272			package common::sense;
273
274	root	1.7	our $VERSION = '3.4';
275	root	1.1
276			# overload should be included
277
278			sub import {
279			IMPORT
280			# use feature
281			$^H{feature_switch} =
282			$^H{feature_say} =
283			$^H{feature_state} = 1;
284			}
285
286			1;
287
288			=back
289
290			=head1 THERE IS NO 'no common::sense'!!!! !!!! !!
291
292			This module doesn't offer an unimport. First of all, it wastes even more
293			memory, second, and more importantly, who with even a bit of common sense
294			would want no common sense?
295
296			=head1 STABILITY AND FUTURE VERSIONS
297
298			Future versions might change just about everything in this module. We
299			might test our modules and upload new ones working with newer versions of
300			this module, and leave you standing in the rain because we didn't tell
301			you. In fact, we did so when switching from 1.0 to 2.0, which enabled gobs
302			of warnings, and made them FATAL on top.
303
304			Maybe we will load some nifty modules that try to emulate C<say> or so
305			with perls older than 5.10 (this module, of course, should work with older
306			perl versions - supporting 5.8 for example is just common sense at this
307			time. Maybe not in the future, but of course you can trust our common
308			sense to be consistent with, uhm, our opinion).
309
310			=head1 WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS MODULE
311
312			apeiron
313
314			"... wow"
315			"I hope common::sense is a joke."
316
317			crab
318
319			"i wonder how it would be if joerg schilling wrote perl modules."
320
321			Adam Kennedy
322
323			"Very interesting, efficient, and potentially something I'd use all the time."
324			[...]
325			"So no common::sense for me, alas."
326
327			H.Merijn Brand
328
329			"Just one more reason to drop JSON::XS from my distribution list"
330
331			Pista Palo
332
333			"Something in short supply these days..."
334
335			Steffen Schwigon
336
337			"This module is quite for sure not just a repetition of all the other
338			'use strict, use warnings'-approaches, and it's also not the opposite.
339			[...] And for its chosen middle-way it's also not the worst name ever.
340			And everything is documented."
341
342			BKB
343
344			"[Deleted - thanks to Steffen Schwigon for pointing out this review was
345			in error.]"
346
347			Somni
348
349			"the arrogance of the guy"
350			"I swear he tacked somenoe else's name onto the module
351			just so he could use the royal 'we' in the documentation"
352
353			Anonymous Monk
354
355			"You just gotta love this thing, its got META.json!!!"
356
357			dngor
358
359			"Heh. '"<elmex at ta-sa.org>"' The quotes are semantic
360			distancing from that e-mail address."
361
362			Jerad Pierce
363
364			"Awful name (not a proper pragma), and the SYNOPSIS doesn't tell you
365			anything either. Nor is it clear what features have to do with "common
366			sense" or discipline."
367
368			acme
369
370			"THERE IS NO 'no common::sense'!!!! !!!! !!"
371
372			apeiron (meta-comment about us commenting^Wquoting his comment)
373
374			"How about quoting this: get a clue, you fucktarded amoeba."
375
376			quanth
377
378			"common sense is beautiful, json::xs is fast, Anyevent, EV are fast and
379			furious. I love mlehmannware ;)"
380
381			apeiron
382
383			"... it's mlehmann's view of what common sense is. His view of common
384			sense is certainly uncommon, insofar as anyone with a clue disagrees
385			with him."
386
387			apeiron (another meta-comment)
388
389			"apeiron wonders if his little informant is here to steal more quotes"
390
391			ew73
392
393			"... I never got past the SYNOPSIS before calling it shit."
394			[...]
395			How come no one ever quotes me. :("
396
397			=head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
398
399			Or frequently-come-up confusions.
400
401			=over 4
402
403			=item Is this module meant to be serious?
404
405			Yes, we would have put it under the C<Acme::> namespace otherwise.
406
407			=item But the manpage is written in a funny/stupid/... way?
408
409			This was meant to make it clear that our common sense is a subjective
410			thing and other people can use their own notions, taking the steam out
411			of anybody who might be offended (as some people are always offended no
412			matter what you do).
413
414			This was a failure.
415
416			But we hope the manpage still is somewhat entertaining even though it
417			explains boring rationale.
418
419			=item Why do you impose your conventions on my code?
420
421			For some reason people keep thinking that C<common::sense> imposes
422			process-wide limits, even though the SYNOPSIS makes it clear that it works
423			like other similar modules - i.e. only within the scope that C<use>s them.
424
425			So, no, we don't - nobody is forced to use this module, and using a module
426			that relies on common::sense does not impose anything on you.
427
428			=item Why do you think only your notion of common::sense is valid?
429
430			Well, we don't, and have clearly written this in the documentation to
431			every single release. We were just faster than anybody else w.r.t. to
432			grabbing the namespace.
433
434			=item But everybody knows that you have to use strict and use warnings,
435			why do you disable them?
436
437			Well, we don't do this either - we selectively disagree with the
438			usefulness of some warnings over others. This module is aimed at
439			experienced Perl programmers, not people migrating from other languages
440			who might be surprised about stuff such as C<undef>. On the other hand,
441			this does not exclude the usefulness of this module for total newbies, due
442			to its strictness in enforcing policy, while at the same time not limiting
443	root	1.7	the expressive power of perl.
444	root	1.1
445			This module is considerably I<more> strict than the canonical C<use
446			strict; use warnings>, as it makes all its warnings fatal in nature, so
447			you can not get away with as many things as with the canonical approach.
448
449			This was not implemented in version 1.0 because of the daunting number
450			of warning categories and the difficulty in getting exactly the set of
451			warnings you wish (i.e. look at the SYNOPSIS in how complicated it is to
452			get a specific set of warnings - it is not reasonable to put this into
453	root	1.3	every module, the maintenance effort would be enourmous).
454	root	1.1
455			=item But many modules C<use strict> or C<use warnings>, so the memory
456			savings do not apply?
457
458			I suddenly feel sad...
459
460			But yes, that's true. Fortunately C<common::sense> still uses only a
461			miniscule amount of RAM.
462
463			=item But it adds another dependency to your modules!
464
465			It's a fact, yeah. But it's trivial to install, most popular modules have
466			many more dependencies and we consider dependencies a good thing - it
467			leads to better APIs, more thought about interworking of modules and so
468			on.
469
470			=item Why do you use JSON and not YAML for your META.yml?
471
472			This is not true - YAML supports a large subset of JSON, and this subset
473			is what META.yml is written in, so it would be correct to say "the
474			META.yml is written in a common subset of YAML and JSON".
475
476			The META.yml follows the YAML, JSON and META.yml specifications, and is
477			correctly parsed by CPAN, so if you have trouble with it, the problem is
478			likely on your side.
479
480			=item But! But!
481
482			Yeah, we know.
483
484			=back
485
486			=head1 AUTHOR
487
488			Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
489			http://home.schmorp.de/
490
491			Robin Redeker, "<elmex at ta-sa.org>".
492
493			=cut
494