Just stoking the fire here... I have tried something similar to this, several ways!

Inserting your module code at the beginning is cool, but I found it aesthetically displeasing - and a nuisance to scroll through to get to the few lines of main code. I can't find the code anymore (blush) , but here's how I remember doing it, slurping everything in __DATA__ then an eval on that. No doubt other monks will be able to explain the pitfalls in doing this.. but it werked 4 me!!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @code = <DATA>;
my $code = join "" , @code;
eval $code;


my $stuff = Foo->new('RedCar');
print $stuff->{bar};

__DATA__
package Foo;

sub new {
 my $self= shift;
 my $val = shift;
 my %hash =( bar=> $val);;
 return bless { %hash}, $self;
}

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In reply to Re: Combining modules into a single file by submersible_toaster
in thread Combining modules into a single file by sabkat

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