[Catalyst] Alien::Dojo uses regexes to parse HTML, so what?

[Dominique Quatravaux]

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Daniel McBrearty wrote:

> Why not write your own damn parser

Uh, because I don't need to do that by any extent?

> or you could just do what software engineers have been advocating
> for decades

Well, *I am* a software engineer, and KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is
among the things I advocate. I hear I'm not alone at that.

> That way you help yourself, by taking advantage of debugging that
> has already been done.

In the current instance (repeat: *in the current instance*), using an
HTML parser would just result in gratuitous bloat in Foo::Dojo's
tarball, maintenance headaches, or both. And as I argued in the other
email I don't expect an infinite stream of bugs to pour from that
regex thingy of mine, either.

TIMTOWTDI, remember?

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Dominique QUATRAVAUX                           Ingénieur senior
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