(jeffa) 3Re: Good programming practice

i do have a problem with require - it's a bit old, and more importantly, it's not portable. If you design a CPAN style module, you can install it on any system and access it from any program. Then you can 'use' the much better:use jdb; instead of require.

A great reference for building CPAN style modules can be found here: perlnewmod (and no, you don't have to submit your module to CPAN for it to be a CPAN style module).

But first, read perlmod. :)

jeffa

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Re: (jeffa) 3Re: Good programming practice by Ven'Tatsu (Deacon) on Nov 04, 2001 at 02:05 UTC
If you install the module in the @INC path you can `require jbd;` the same as use, but without the side effect of being done at compile time. If the module depends on runtime data (like $database from the example) swiching to use may cause trouble.	[reply] [d/l]