Fair enough. That is clever module design. I suspect that it's also common module design, but it's not something that a beginner, as the poster indicated s/he was, would think about. In addition, it's listed among the common mistakes someone from C++ would make coming to PERL(!). It's certainly not what I thought about when I first started working on modules.

And as long as you understood what I was talking about, it could've been peRl, Per1, or PerL. *grins* I don't want to start a flamewar, but that did seem a little nitpicky.