Hello! I'm developing a module of useful web/db functions. Several of the functions need to use an existing DBI $DBH handle, and I'm trying to figure out the most stylish way to arrange this. Here are my constraints: I want to put the functions into a module that doesn't require any other modules except for CGI.pm. If I just pass in the $DBH through as one of the function args, that seems like a bit inefficient, since I _always_ need to pass it in. 
example: my_function($DBH, @args)

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The other possibility seems to be make the function an OO method, which gives me the syntax: 
example: $DBH->my_function(@args)

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That perhaps might look cleaner, but OTOH, it doesn't really save much typing per function call. So the question is, when developing a routine that's always going to need a object reference to be passed in, what's a good style to handle this in? Thanks.

In reply to need help developing fly OO style by markjugg

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