It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-- William G. McAdoo

The main reason to use array etc. was to keep method names short and descriptive and more Perl-like. You can read more about it in a recent presentation to Silicon Valley Perl Mongers (I guess you're gonna start calling all these newbies now, too. Sigh), here:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/sv.pm/index.html

More information available in POD format:

http://search.cpan.org/...Ix-DWIW-0.26/DWIW.pm

Jeremy's pages (you said you wanted to email him) available at:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/

Instead of emailing him, however, you might want to sign up for the MySQL mailing list. He's a regular contributor and I'm sure more people will benefit from you asking questions on the mailing list rather than private email.

- wil