[Maypole] Searching in Maypole

[Simon Cozens]

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> I'm just learning about Maypole - neat article on
> perl.com - and I wonder how do you search? 

Currently, you write a routine that does the kind of searching you want.
In the near future, I'll be revamping the built-in search support a little.

> Maypole looks nice, but it's function would be better
> if you could do complicated things instead of just
> simple stuff.

You can do complicated things with it, but not for free. You can do anything
you want with it. I wrote a social network site. I wrote an e-commerce site. I
wrote a portal. None of these are like the default Maypole actions - did you
take a look at the second article where I explained how to extend Maypole?

I think Maypole is too powerful. Because you can write a reasonably good
application with very few lines of code, people get the feeling that you ought
be able to write any application you want with no additional lines of code.
If Maypole did less, people would be happier with extending it to do what they
want. If Maypole provided no searching support at all, people wouldn't be
surprised that the searching didn't do what they wanted.

Ah well, it's done now.

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