"I seem to have three options..."

IMHO you have one more: If it works - don't touch it!

"I have inherited some ... code"

I have just inherited some code too from a colleague who passed away some weeks ago.

OK, not Perl, it is Bash.

The guy needed about 3 years to write this stuff. Some thousands lines of code.

I had a kind of reflex to port the whole stuff to Perl.

I gave up. I'm not searching for the Perl or OO holy grale.

Pros: What works is OK.

Cons: I need to read the manpages of sed and awk again ;-(

I hope, this isn't too much off topic.

Regards, Karl

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

In reply to Re: How to deal with old OO code that mixes instance methods with class methods by karlgoethebier
in thread How to deal with old OO code that mixes instance methods with class methods by eyepopslikeamosquito

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