in reply to Module Style and Usage

Heh... I *love* how one's brain works...

> Option 1: Say you have a MyModule with timestamp in it.
> Now a new corporate standard says all company-owned
> modules should be in the Example namespace. All you need
> to do is change the modules themselves (including moving
> them to the Example subdirectory) and the "use"
> statements. The rest of the code will work as-is.

I woke-up at about 3:00am this morning with this particular revelation.

I've been working on a program to parse all my Perl code (more than 1000 programs at last count) to find all the instances of calls to my 'mylib.pl' functions and I was thinking the 'crossing' of all the function names with every line of code was going to be kindof horrendous. Then comes *this* little spark... and all I (might) have to do is change the 'require mylib.pl' to 'use MyModule' (providing the exports, etc are all Ok). I might *still* have to do it... but at least I have a possible shortcut :)

As usual, there's always a few ways to do things... some better than others in terms of documentation, re-use, namespace clashes, etc.

Many thanks, once again, Monks :)


John