Thanks Aman. I think I understand what he's trying to do - I'm more concerned that this is the common practice with perl and I wasn't aware of it. Know what I mean?
Aman Raheja wrote: > What I think this note means to say it is to save the libraries ( small > subroutines saved as .pl in a different file, you might write for your > program to make it look cleaner and by just doing require that .pl file you > may use the subroutine.) > All he's expecting to do is differentiate between the executable codes (the > ones with #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line) by naming them with extension > .plx and having the files that just contain some subroutines, written in a > different file ( which can be called a library, if chosen too, because might > be used by other programs too) and having them with extension .pl > > Aman Raheja > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Francis Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:29 AM > Subject: perl extensions > > > Hi: > > > > The following is a note from a colleague of which I am skeptical: > > > > "fyi.... > > .pl used to be used for both executables and libraries. > > A library is simply perl code located in a different file which is > > imported into another perl program with the 'require' keyword. > > > > Now that we have the .plx convention (and of course the extension > > doesn't > > affect perl's behavior at all) we can have .pl stand only for > > libraries > > and .plx stand for executables." > > > > Are any of the rest of you conforming to this? I'm not sure if he's > > referring to modules (ext. .pm) when he says "libraries", either. > > > > > > > > -- > > NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender > > does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
