>  If it's a function/method which you have found useful/necessary, then other people might find it useful/necessary too, so make it part of your public API If someone finds a non API function useful after reading the source, he's still free to use it at own risk.

The risk is obvious by the fact that it's NOT part of the public API.

Occasionally I notice that internal functions might be useful for others, in this case outsourcing them to another module appears to be a better strategy.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^2: (How) Do you document/test your private subroutines? by LanX
in thread (How) Do you document/test your private subroutines? by stevieb

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