Huh?

Just must have been drunk or something,

I mean to say, I can ONLY agree with this approach.

Sorry for any confusion and thanks for not roasting me :-)

Have a nice weekend,

jonasbn

> On 1 Mar 2018, at 17.36, Jonas B. Nielsen <jona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I cannot agree with this approach, but sometimes a single file is the easiest 
> to distribute.
> 
> Currently I am looking at App::Fatpacker - 
> https://metacpan.org/pod/App::FatPacker 
> <https://metacpan.org/pod/App::FatPacker>
> 
>> On 1 Mar 2018, at 15.00, yary <not....@gmail.com <mailto:not....@gmail.com>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:56 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk 
>> <mailto:da...@cantrell.org.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> My approach is to have the script be mostly a wrapper around more
>> easily-testable modules - the script just wrangles arguments and shows
>> results.
>> 
>> +1 for that approach in general. Makes it easy to call the "useful" code in 
>> the script in other places.
>> 
>> Something to do in small scripts which don't aren't module material, is to 
>> put all the "useful" code into subs, put the command-line processing & 
>> printing into a "sub MAIN", and then have only this top-level statement:
>> 
>>     exit MAIN unless caller;
>> 
>> That lets the script be called normally, executing when run from the command 
>> line. On the other hand, another perl program can "require 'the_code_file.pl 
>> <http://the_code_file.pl/>'" and load all the subs without anything 
>> executing- so your test code can call MAIN after setting @ARGV to whatever 
>> it wants - or can test the other subs as needed.
>> 
> 



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