How to structure a perl application

From: Henry Law (lawshouse.public_at_btconnect.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:42:17 +0000

I'm about to start writing an application in perl and need advice on
structuring it. When I wrote my first V*sual B*sic application the
code worked, mostly, but I virtually had to re-write it to undo the
bad structure I'd unwittingly used and I don't want to do that again.

I Googled a bit ([perl application structure] for example) without
finding much; can someone suggest a source of information?

If not, would it be OK for me to present my current ideas (a
combination of packages, separate files of code brought in via
"require", and judiciously chosen package global variables) for
consideration and refinement?

(When all's said and done this I'm not a professional and this code
will probably only ever be for my own use, so enterprise-wide code
management processes probably aren't appropriate. But I want to take
pride in what I'm doing ...)

Henry Law <>< Manchester, England

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