On Wednesday 25 May 2005 1:19 pm, Luinrandir Insight wrote: > As I understand Pack/Mod are loaded into memory when the main program is > run. > So saving memory is not the issue here... using Packs or Mods is mainly for > programming ease. > Yes or No?
Yes, modules are primarilly about making your code easier to work on. However, you do want to preload your code during the server startup, which saves memory. http://modperlbook.com/html/ch10_01.html > So the way I was going to design the program is > > Main program processes the <INPUT> from something like: > main.cgi?location=castle&coins=12&horses=2.. etc. > > once the input is split....it goes to a big if-elsif-elsif-elsif-elsif-.... Check out the CGI::Application module on CPAN. There are also some articles that have been written about it that explain the basics of separating the parts of your program into a model-view-controller design. > So all I am really doing is moving the subroutines to packages.... Packages are just collections of subroutines and data under a specific namespace. If you can't imagine why this is beneficial, you might want to read a book about programming best practices, like Code Complete. - Perrin
