Not all of the format modules will deal with ambiguous cases in the same way. This sounds dangerous and error prone.
Not at all. I am not suggesting that the module magically collect all of the possible parsing modules and just randomly call them. The default behavior would be to call only a single module, in this case the aforementioned DT::F::Simple. The user would be free to add/reorder the list of possible parsing modules to their heart's content. Modules intended to handle ambiguous cases would normally be placed very late in the list.
The idea is that a very small (read fast) module would be the only one loaded by default and more robust/sophisticated modules would be loaded only on demand.
John
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