Re: best way to use the USE statement

Richard E Maine wrote:
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For what it is worth, I'm in the camp of putting all the USE
statements at the top of the module. My main reason is that I
consider it to be part of the high-level information to know what
other modules this one might have dependencies on. I find that more
important than knowing which modules each subroutine depends on.
After all, I have to compile the module as a whole - not each
subroutine separately.

But several people whose judgement I respect are in the other camp.

I'd agree with you *if* I could control host association. As it
is, there are cases where one is more legible, and there are cases
where the other is.

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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