Just let me say that the
any() implementation in
List::MoreUtils is more general than the one described in the list of rejected functions.
Specifically in List::MoreUtils it takes a block, and evaluates that for every list item, and returns true if the block returned true once. The one described in List::Util just gives true when any of the list items is true, so
List::MoreUtils::any
is roughly like
List::Util::proposed_any map BLOCK LIST
except that it's optimized.
That's not as trivial (ok, it's only slightly more complicated) as Graham puts it, which is why I never understood his point.