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I find the following crop up in scripts as they are maintained over time.

1. Load a module that is never used.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Foo; use Bar; # Needless my $foo = Foo->new();

2. Forget to explicitly load a module.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Foo; my $bar = Bar->new(); # Works because Bar is loaded by Foo

In a separate module...

package Foo; use Bar; sub new { ... }

If package Foo is ever modified such that it no longer uses Bar, the script goes kaboom.

Any suggestions on how to reveal these in scripts other than scanning the code? Do you use any practices to prevent them?


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