There was a testing revolution over a decade ago. Then came Moose (2007ish?). You have syntax extensions now. And so on. See e.g. http://search.cpan.org/~mauk

There was a testing revolution over a decade ago. Then came Moose (2007ish?). You have syntax extensions now. And so on. See e.g. http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Keyword-Simple-0.02/lib/Keyword/Simple.pm http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Keyword-Simple-0.02/lib/Keywor... http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Function-Parameters-1.0401/lib/Function/Parameters.pm http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Function-Parameters-1.0401/lib... What seems to happen the coming years in Perl 5 (unless the Python language trolls manages to discredit it enough to kill it :-) ) is probably gelling around language [syntax] extensions and Moose going to the Perl core. But it will still keep backwards compatibility. (And I write horrible Perl code most days myself, as one line liners. :-) Best damn shell functionality on this planet imho, along with Emacs command line editing.)