Re: testing scripts inside your distro

2018-03-01 15:00 GMT+01:00 yary <[email protected]>:

> 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;
>

This approach is called a "modulino". See those articles:
https://perlmaven.com/modulino-both-script-and-module
https://www.perl.com/article/107/2014/8/7/Rescue-legacy-code-with-modulinos/