When I said "what else is new" I didn't refer to CPAN modules, but the general practice of not commenting. I see how I could've been misunderstood
http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm#FLAVORS indeed gives a step-by-step recipe to the algorithm, but if you read carefully you see that it doesn't go a bit into explaining why things are the way they are. My code does
To avoid further mis-understanding, I removed the offending phrase
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).