title: What is the difference between parent and base in Perl 5?
body: <p>There appears to be a new pragma named <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/parent/lib/parent.pm" rel="noreferrer"><code>parent</code></a> that does roughly the same thing as <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/base.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>base</code></a>.  What does <code>parent</code> do that warrants a new (non-core) module?  I am missing something?</p>