Importing Modules in 'require'ed libraries

njcodewarrior has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got a library of functions that I'm importing into some scripts via:

require 'path/to/myLibrary.pl';
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and each function uses a number of Modules that may or may not be used by other functions within the library file.

This got me wondering:

1) Should I just import all of the modules for all of the functions at the top of the library file?
2) Should I import the modules that are used by each function within the body of the function?
3) Does it matter?

Thanks for the help.

- njcodewarrior

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Re: Importing Modules in 'require'ed libraries by kwaping (Priest) on Sep 07, 2006 at 22:08 UTC
According to my research (thanks chatterbox!), it doesn't matter where they are located inside your `require`d file. This thread might help in your understanding of `use` and `require`, like it did for me. --- It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.	[reply] [d/l] [select]