First off I need to admit when it comes to modules I am dumb as a brick. That having been said, I have a friend who is developing an application for a project we are working on. I am co-developing. He is doing something that I have never seen before and am still a little bit weary of it. Admittedly, I am weary not because I can think of an adversity to using this method but that I am simply not used to this.

What he is doing is modularizing. This is good except that every module he's creating he's calling it 'package main;' essentially (I believe) placing every module as a piece of the calling main body. Ok, in theory this is what sounds like is happening, however, I am running into a snag.

Whenever I try to edit my piece of the pie and then execute it, my subs get compiled and *run*!!! thus failing because, well, nothing is being passed to them yet, or in other words, a bunch of undefs are being seen hence unitialized variables in the symbol table when I try to do something in the sub with a variable. Technically, though, I'd think that nothing should be being done with these subs yet anyway. At least not until the main body calls my code. *shrug*. Im not sure. I've read the docs but I must either be missing something or the package main; being placed at the top of every module is throwing me off.

Any foresight would be greatly appreciated!

TIA

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2002-04-21 Edit by Corion - moved from Meditation to SoPW

In reply to A lil module creation advice by snafu

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