Thanks for the pointer to 'perlstyle' and 'Exporter'. I shall read, mark and inwardly digest.
But I don't understand what you mean by C<use>? (I'm already using strict & warnings.) Rgds, GStC. -----Original Message----- From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:02 AM To: Graeme St. Clair Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Naming Convention? Graeme St. Clair wrote: > Is there any common convention governing names of variables defined in > a 'require'd 'blah.pl'? I'd like to make use of such variables > detectable to the naked eye in the scripts that 'require blah.pl'. > > Rgds, GStC. > > Well you should consider using C<use> and making it a proper module. Then use the Exporter if you still have to pollute namespaces. Don't just throw everything in main::. Turn on 'strict' and 'warnings'. To your question, check out: perldoc perlstyle http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>