Hello all, I'm just mulling over a framework design for this application I've been asked to build. Eventually, I wish to run this under mod_perl, so I'm plumping for the completely modular approach (with a start-up script loading modules). Here's my question however. I need to be able to process a number of actions submitted by the user, say "open_file" and "display_line". I'd like to keep those subroutines in a specific module which is AUTOLOADed (say base::Actions::DisplayStuff), just to prevent me from implicitly defining what every "action" does and importing all the modules. i.e. - 
if ($act eq 'open_file'){ stuff; }
elsif ( $act eq 'open_stuff') { stuff; }
elsif ( $act eq 'speak' ) { stuff; }

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Firstly I'm not sure whether this is an correct approach to adopt, and secondly I'm wondering how I might structure the AUTOLOAD function to load these extra modules. Should I actually use "require", or do I need to use that funky goto method ? Obviously I'm looking for maximum flexibility, but also reasonable execution speed.

I hope someone can understand this raving mess of a question ;)

kindest,

>joe

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