Thank you so much haukex you hit the nail on the head!

Interesting code. In a previous answer choroba mentions other smart comment schemes. Been coding in Perl for many years and I've always thought about doing stuff like this and never knew they existed.

Material for a larger Meditation...

I feel there is so much stuff on the CPAN that we don't leverage but there is also a lot of useless and redundant stuff. The add to favourites in meta::cpan is helpful but I don't think many people use it. Not sure how well popularity contest worked for the Debian folks (I switched all my servers to FBSD circa 2006 and have lost track of the Linux world), but maybe if there is some way we can do something similar (yeah, I know, it's probably on the CPAN already but I don't know about it).

Maybe there exists something we can stick in our code and send some anonymous stats to used modules etc. There's probably tons of security concerns but maybe a command line you could run ad-hoc and send anonymized stats about your Perl code. It would have to be something pretty easy to enable or execute else people won't use it. There could also be some incentive for people to use it, like PerlCoin lol.

It would also help keep track of people using Perl around the world, how they are using, what they are using from the CPAN, and do away with stupid myths like Perl is dying, Perl is dead, nobody uses Perl, etc.