> I didn't know you could put multiple subs inside a bracket and share variables that way

You don't need the brackets to share variables. But they are limiting the scope the same way like your giant function did before. I tried to guaranty a pain free refactoring.

FWIW you can also nest multiple layers of brackets. See Coping with Scoping for more.

The other approach is using OOP.

kcott also mentioned passing a hash around, that's actually one criteria for needing OOP, because (most) objects are just blessed hashes which are passed inside $self.°

so this could do too: 

$obj->some_method {
    my ($self,@args) = @_;

    print $self-{many}, $self->{variables};
}

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Cheers Rolf
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°) one criteria of many, it depends on the concrete use case

In reply to Re^7: Aren't there code refs as well as function refs? (Update: refactoring many variables into hash or object) by LanX
in thread Aren't there code refs as well as function refs? by dd-b

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