[jk0ne]

The SQL::Abstract stuff is interesting. DTL has it's origins in needing to do a very similar thing - to be able to create a set of transformations and go back and forth between the real expression and a UI / object representing the action to be taken... and to make programmatic adjustments to them. Well, that and a stubborn refusal on my part to resort to `eval()` ;)

There were many times when I wasn't sure if DTL was a good idea, tbh. Thankfully, nearly every time I came close to abandoning it, something else came up that DTL made easy (Or, it forced me to fix something in DTL that prevented it from being easy.) I'm fairly confident it was a good idea at this point. Or if not good, at least useful. ;)