Thanks for reminding my of Knuth's sage advice.

I think what I'm getting at is that using Order in X is misguided. When we say that doSomething() operates on an Order object, we are really saying that it operates on an object that behaves like an Order. It could be an instance of Order or an instance of a sub-class or just a mocked-up object that implements enough of the methods of an Order to make it look like an Order to doSomething().

There may be no harm in including it, but on the other hand I can't think of a compelling reason to do so. If a real instance of Order will get passed to doSomething, then the caller can be responsible for ensuring that the Order name space is loaded.

Perhaps I forgot to mention that this particular application consists of 800+ modules, and all of that unnecessary module loading is a big drag on unit testing.

In reply to Re^2: general rule for using use by perl5ever
in thread general rule for using use by perl5ever

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