On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:34:12PM +0200, Aaron Craig wrote:
: You are correct that loading CGI.pm is going to make very little difference
: in the overall time it takes to run your project. But, I find it good
: programming practice to be as efficient as possible -- even if the
: difference is negligible.
I would suggest that the most efficient approach might be to import
just one symbol from CGI.pm, explicitly. Now, Aaron, I'm not saying
you are wrong, however, I do suggest that we encorage standards for
beginners.
In light of the above, ensuring your code won't break *and* that you
get only what you need, try the following:
use CGI qw( params );
This ensured that you only get the params() function for handling
simple form submissions and none of the extra stuff gets played with.
Casey West
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