Common Routines
The problem of code re-use and re-purposing
became an issue even while developing the first couple of Perl programs,
and only became worse the more programs were copied and modified for
other applications.
On the one hand, I had to determine what
was unique to one application and what was truly general and valid as
a shared routine for several applications.
On the other hand, I had new data structures
which simplifies code further. Code needed to handle a data structure
could be re-used to handle other similarly structured data structures.
As a result, many of the routines were
generalized to the point where they could re-used. If two or more programs
needed a routine, it was placed into the globe.pm
file. Not all of the routines are used in all Perl programs.
WARNING! By adding
common routines to the globe.pm
file, it solidifies it as a code file. Be careful in making changes
to definitions, otherwise other Perl programs wont
work.
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01/13/2003
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