On Nov 9, Balint, Jess said: >Are there any downsides to not using the OO syntax?
Well, importing a bunch of functions does what's called "polluting a namespace". I puts a bunch of functions at your disposal, but at the price of... well, putting them there. You'd better make sure you don't already have a function named table() or whatnot. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]