SPUG: Interdependance of package subroutines

[DeRykus, Charles E]

>... This is were I found the real use of "require" instead of "use".
Because, I wouldn't know if a user 
> really needed to use a schedule C or not until further into the
application. Perl will only compile a 
> required file at time of use and not before. So if they never ended up
using this required file, it 
> would never be called or compiled. 

A seemingly underused alternative to require is the autouse pragma
which'll
defer loading until used:  
   
   use autouse Mail::Mailer;  # mail only if errors 

I tend to prefer autouse for visibility with all 'use' keywords at the
top.

   

Rgds,
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Charles DeRykus