Tachyon rightly points out that you don't need both

use CGI qw/:standard/;
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and

my $q = CGI->new();
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etc But I think there's quite a lot to be said for keeping the former rather than the latter. I was convinced of this by pixel in this node. I don't really understand OO programming, but as far as I understand it, in most cgi scripts written with CGI.pm there's only ever going to be one object, and an OO programme with one object is an unnecessary elaboration of a functional programme. Is that right?

Anyway, I get really bored typing $q-> over and over.

§ George Sherston