dami

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• Posted Carp::Object, an object-oriented replacement for Carp and Carp::Clan to dami

  The new Carp::Object module is an object-oriented replacement for Carp or Carp::Clan. What is the point ? Well, here is some motivation.

  The

• Commented on Migrating from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB
  Hi, Thanks for this detailed explanation. For info, I encountered a similar issue with DBD::Oracle and declared it in https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-Oracle/issues/161. But later I realized that this is a more general issue, so neither DBD::Oracle nor any other DBD driver can...
• Commented on MooseX::Extreme Needs a New Name
  Hi Ovid, I would suggest MouseX::PreCorinna -- this makes it explicit that it loads a bundle of modules that follow more or less the same design choices as Corinna. Regarding the 'param' and 'field' extensions : yes it's desirable to...

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• Grinnz commented on Migrating from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB

  Hi dami,

  You are correct that they cannot guess the intended encoding of a string, but the issue here is that DBD::mysql attempts to (intentionally or not) based on the internal storage of the string. The correct behavior is to use the visible Perl value of the string, and require the user to specify if it is instead a byte string that should not be encoded.