If you 'use <module>' in your code, perl will search in the @INC array of directories (observed with perl -V) for that <module>.pm and import it. Also, the command perldoc -q 'How do I add a directory ' should give more ways to add directories at runtime. For procedural based modules, not object oriented, there is more information worth reading in the documentation for Exporter. 'perldoc Exporter'.

You do not need to do the Makefile to make everything work on your machine, but if you want to start sharing it, like on CPAN, you would want to use one of the mod builder tools like module-starter and write a bunch of tests to make the module complete, documented, and robust like.

In reply to Re^3: OO best practice basic questions by trippledubs
in thread OO best practice basic questions by Amblikai

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