Generally speaking, a modulino uses the .pl extension

Interesting. Because the modulino link I provided was actually in my browser history because of your Re: Need to know the process to implement perl script into web application server.... and that link you provided shows a file named examples/modulino.pm and he runs it as perl modulino.pm. So it's not completely unheard of to have the modulino as a .pm, not a .pl

It seems there are really two use cases for modulino:

  1. having a script, and wanting to slowly turn it into a module (ie, your use case)
  2. having a module, and wanting to do something without having to write a separate .pl to call it, like validate, test, or run under default conditions (ie, the case that gszabo seems to be espousing in the article, and that Marshall wants and LanX gave examples of)
Both seem reasonable uses of the concept, to me.

In reply to Re^2: Difference between executing and "using" a .pm file by pryrt
in thread Difference between executing and "using" a .pm file by Marshall

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