Thats an interesting idea, my only problem is that the entire script has to be recompiled and reexecuted every time I try to run it. The main reason I'm playing with Perl.pm is to be able to "cache" the compilation of perl scripts, for speed purposes. Theoretically, with the Perl->new() method, it will load and compile the script, then I can run it multiple times with the ->run method. Maybe. In your method it would have to get reloaded every time, I think.