I see many people point out that they only use a tiny subset of CGI.pm these days, params() being the most common. I couldn't agree more. I never understood why in the world anyone bothered to implement a h1 method -- who in their right mind would use something like that? :-)

print h1({-align=>left}, 'What be this see-ess-ess thing?');
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Would it be possible to chop CGI.pm into pieces, rewrite the stuff that's still in use, call it CGI.pm and keep it in core, and then eject the more exotic/old-fashioned stuff so that if you still want to use it you would install something like "CGI::Compat", "CGI::Legacy" or similar from CPAN?

Either way you choose to eject it from core (as I'm sure will happen sooner or later), it's not like this change would all of a sudden make all existing installations burn down, fall over and then sink into the swamp.

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