You have a point for your first two .. points. However, on your last point, the reason i stuck with do vs use was that it seemed visually clearer, so the reader would know that i'm attempting to execute code in a seperate file, as opposed to the common interpretation of use, which is that i'm attempting to import a module. However, use 'file.pl' would have the exact same effect with the benefit of error checking and so forth. Of course, a problem there is if you want to call a 'file' multiple times, i dont think multiple uses would execute the code multiple times.

You have a point about just wrapping the file in a sub, but that seems to kind of defeat the purpose =/. You're right about the maintence of a whole folder full of subs, but that mostly holds true for local. If you were trying to remotely maintain something, and you improved one sub, you could just send out a new sub-file, and say 'replace file blah in your sub folder with this new file', as opposed to 'look in blah.pl, find line 952-1060 and replace them with this block of code..'

In reply to Re: Re: Do file.pl (replacing subs?) by BUU
in thread Do file.pl (replacing subs?) by BUU

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