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Chapter 2. Building Larger Programs

This chapter looks at how to break up a program into pieces and includes some of the concerns that arise when you put those pieces back together again, or when many people work together on the same program.



    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Building Larger Programs
    		2.1 The Cure for the Common Code
    		2.2 Inserting Code with eval
    		2.3 Using do
    		2.4 Using require
    		2.5 require and @INC
    		2.6 The Problem of Namespace Collisions
    		2.7 Packages as Namespace Separators
    		2.8 Scope of a Package Directive
    		2.9 Packages and Lexicals
    		2.10 Exercises
    		Chapter 3. Introduction to References
    		Chapter 4. References and Scoping
    		Chapter 5. Manipulating Complex Data Structures
    		Chapter 6. Subroutine References
    		Chapter 7. Practical Reference Tricks
    		Chapter 8. Introduction to Objects
    		Chapter 9. Objects with Data
    		Chapter 10. Object Destruction
    		Chapter 11. Some Advanced Object Topics
    		Chapter 12. Using Modules
    		Chapter 13. Writing a Distribution
    		Chapter 14. Essential Testing
    		Chapter 15. Contributing to CPAN
    		Appendix A. Answers to Exercises