Ah, yes. Much better! I was also thinking of an improvement to prevent the example code from sticking around when it wasn't being used. For example: 

package main;

BEGIN {
    my $isScript= ! caller(2);
    sub _isScript() { $isScript }
}
if(  _isScript  ) {
    require CGI;
    my $q= CGI->new();
    # ...
}
undef &_isScript;

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would still require that the sample code be parsed the first time that the module is used but the optimizer would know to throw the resulting code away. Not quite as pretty, though.

Another hack to prevent even the work of parsing can be done: 

package main;

unless(  caller  ) {
    my $code= do { local($/); <DATA> };
    my $file= __FILE__;
    my $line= __LINE__ + 5;
    eval "\n# line $line $file\n$code; 1"
      or  die "$@\n";
}
__END__
use CGI;
# ...
__END__

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        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re2: Not Matt's Scripts by tye
in thread Not Matt's Scripts by davorg

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