What do you suggest in cases where a module's conditionally needed? For example, a program only needs either Text::Table or HTML::Table, depending upon how that program's called. Should both modules be loaded or conditionally loaded?

For example:

# Conditionally use Modules based on outFormat
for ( $config{outFormat} ) {
    when (TEXT) {
        eval 'use Text::Table';
        die $@ if $@;
    }

    when (HTML) {
        eval 'use HTML::Table';
        die $@ if $@;
    }
}

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If conditionally loaded if acceptable, would require be better than use in the above case?

In reply to Re^2: subroutine good practise by Kenosis
in thread subroutine good practise by Anonymous Monk

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