That is part of what I was asking but I was also hoping to hear the
common wisdom so to speak. When I posted I had considered the idea for
a bit and the situations people have mentioned were similar to the
scenario I came up with as a good time to break such a rule. My
hypothetical situation was as
I've been reading a lot of python modules lately to see how they work
and I've stumbled across something that's sort of annoying and wanted
to find out of there was a good reason behind it. In a Perl program
when you're calling other modules you'll add "use" statements at the
beginning of your scri
