On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Timothy Kohl wrote:
for example
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib)
I realize this is for grabbing a portion of a larger .pm file, but how does it differ from say
use LWP::Simple;
You mean aside from being completely different libraries? :-)
You've basically got it: by specifying what parts of a module you want to import into your own code, you're explicitly using only the aspects of the library that are relevant to what you want to do.
This can keep your runtime code a bit smaller, and by extension faster.
It can also keep things cleaner, in that you're less likely to have conflicts between your own variables & functions and the ones that came from parts of the module you aren't interested in.
It's a funny question, now that you ask it -- isn't it just intuitively obvious that restricting & specifying things this way is a good habit?
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