And that is why all my CGI scripts now start as such:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

That subroutine was something I worked with about 5 years ago, but then I moved to CGI.pm when I had trouble with all the points you brought up. That and cutting and pasting was a pain in the rumpus.

The code that can be written is not the eternal Code. The typeglob that can be named is not the eternal Typeglob.

- The Tao of Perl