Re^2: Avoiding loading modules

...a large number of 'use' directives is a huge red flag... I'd look into ways of redo-ing the app

Could you expand on that? I often end up with "a large number of 'use' directives" to, amongst other things, _avoid_ a big ball of mud. :-)

How many is large? How would you go about "redo-ing the app"?

I, too, "like seeing the use statements at the top of the file". But perhaps for the wrong reasons?

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Re^3: Avoiding loading modules
by derby (Abbot) on May 05, 2007 at 13:31 UTC

It would depend on the type of app but for me, it's mainly web apps. If one of my web apps get's huge, I take a hard look at the namespace (http://www.foo.com/webapp) and see if I can break it out into parts. For example, for a typical CRUD database app, I may do:

http://www.foo.com/webapp/create
http://www.foo.com/webapp/retrieve
http://www.foo.com/webapp/update
http://www.foo.com/webapp/delete

/path/to/foo/webapp
- Controller.pm
- Model.pm
- View.pm
- create
  - Controller.pm
  - Model.pm
  - View.pm
- retrieve
  - Controller.pm
  - Model.pm
  - View.pm
- update
  - Controller.pm
  - Model.pm
  - View.pm
- delete
  - Controller.pm
  - Model.pm
  - View.pm
As for when to do this -- I cannot say. For me it's more a comfort level decision. I tend to apply cohesion and coupling principles at the module level - when the module is doing too many things and I cannot reasonably reuse it, then I break it down.

-derby

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