note ian eyepopslikeamosquito said: <blockquote cite="my citation"> Update: I expect TheDamian's upcoming book "Perl Best Practices" will have some sound advice on this subject. </blockquote> Indeed, [TheDamian]'s book, or [id://477093|Perl Best Practices (PBP)] has a whole chapter on modules (ch17, pg. 397). The first section in that chapter is on interface design. <p> <b>Update:</b> There's an article that covers some of this by [TheDamian] called [http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/07/14/bestpractices.html|Ten Essential Development Practices]. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-655030"> -- Ian Tegebo </div></div> 431702 431855