Heh, interesting play with the modules ;-) -- although, I can't quite grasp the purpose for such a 'wrapper'. Anyhow, straight onto the question..

Thou art pleas:

did I just get lucky? Am I doing this the most efficient way, or should I be returning a reference to the CGI object?!?

Yes, and no. Yes, you are lucky that you have such a wonderful tool at your disposal as Perl :). Your module is built properly. Frankly, I don't see anything peculiar about it. For the second question, I say 'no' because you are already returning reference to the CGI object, don't you? In your new_cgi() method you are simply invoking the cgi constructor (new()) which returns a reference to a blassed 'CGI' hash. You than simply return that same reference to the caller of your constructor. Therefore, indeed you only deal with references here. I see no point optimizing any further in this direction.

UPDATE: removed my statement of 'faith'.. untill I come up with a new one :)

In reply to Re: using modules already 'used' (part 2) by vladb
in thread using modules already 'used' (part 2) by cLive ;-)

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