Predeclare sub names
++=item unicode::distinct
++
++Strictly distinguish UTF8 data and non-UTF data.
++
=item utf8
Enable/disable UTF-8 in source code
Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
++=item B::Concise
++
++Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
++
=item B::Debug
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
Warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
++=item Carp::Heavy
++
++No user serviceable parts inside
++
=item Class::Struct
Declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
Locate directory of original perl script
++=item GDBM_File
++
++Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
++
=item Getopt::Long
Extended processing of command line options
Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
++=item Pod::Text::Overstrike
++
++Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
++
=item Pod::Text::Termcap
Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes
=over
=item *
Language Extensions and Documentation Tools
=item *
Development Support
=item *
Operating System Interfaces
=item *
Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess Communication
=item *
Data Types and Data Type Utilities
=item *
Database Interfaces
=item *
User Interfaces
=item *
Interfaces to / Emulations of Other Programming Languages
=item *
File Names, File Systems and File Locking (see also File Handles)
=item *
String Processing, Language Text Processing, Parsing, and Searching
=item *
Option, Argument, Parameter, and Configuration File Processing
=item *
Internationalization and Locale
=item *
Authentication, Security, and Encryption
=item *
World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME
=item *
Server and Daemon Utilities
=item *
Archiving and Compression
=item *
Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing, and Graphing
=item *
Mail and Usenet News
=item *
Control Flow Utilities (callbacks and exceptions etc)
=item *
File Handle and Input/Output Stream Utilities
=item *
--
Miscellaneous Modules
=back
=over 4
--=item *
--
--Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library.
++=item Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library.
--=item *
--
--Many applications contain some Perl code that could be reused.
++=item Many applications contain some Perl code that could be reused.
Help save the world! Share your code in a form that makes it easy
to reuse.
--=item *
--
--Break-out the reusable code into one or more separate module files.
--
--=item *
++=item Break-out the reusable code into one or more separate module files.
--Take the opportunity to reconsider and redesign the interfaces.
--
--=item *
++=item Take the opportunity to reconsider and redesign the interfaces.
--In some cases the 'application' can then be reduced to a small
++=item In some cases the 'application' can then be reduced to a small
fragment of code built on top of the reusable modules. In these cases
the application could invoked as: