I need some clarification...

I have been tasked with job of re-writing the code for a web site. The entire site runs on Apache/mod_perl, and is a mish-mash of code, what I would describe as "stream-of-consciousness" code. :-)

My goal is to reduce everything to a bunch of subroutines and default variables and constants that get called as needed.

My conundrum is: how do I do this?

The boss wants a module, but that does not seem correct to me. Most of the code we are using is already depending on modules, so I would need to include calls to these other modules wthin my module, and that just doesn't seem right.

So I looked at putting all my subroutines into 2 Perl libraries: one for database-related code and another for all other code.

But I am not able to "see" the subroutines or variables that I declare in the Perl Library files.

The test script, as well as the Perl libraries, are using the "use strict" pragma, as well as the taint flag (-T) in the shebang.

I suspect that I will have success if I utilize "Package::Foo" syntax, but I want to avoid that if possible.

Fellow coders, what say you?

Many thanks for your input!

In reply to Perl library or new module? by LaidBackWebSage

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