Re: Perl OO best practice?

use is used to load a module. The module is already loaded, being in the same file you are already executing.

Buy the way, I prefer

{
    package Apple;
    ...
}

{
    package Orange;
    ...
}

{
    ...
}
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over

package Apple;
...

package Orange;
...

package main;
...
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It provides better scoping for lexical variables and directives such as our @ISA.

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Re^2: Perl OO best practice? by smile4me (Beadle) on Feb 09, 2010 at 20:07 UTC
yes ikegami, you are right, open/close braces are safer/better for inline packages. I should have qualified my example better: in my production code, the packages are in separate files. I squished them into one file for the sake of the example, in case someone wanted to run the code. :-) sjs	[reply]
Re^3: Perl OO best practice? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2010 at 21:18 UTC
Then your code doesn't work without `use`. Why are you asking if omitting `use` is stylistically ok when your module doesn't even work when you omit it?	[reply] [d/l] [select]