1.6: Tips When Generating Code

• Use here docs so you can see the code most clearly
  • No extra quotes, newlines
  • Indenting you can easily control
• Generate parts separately
  • Build lists of parts if needed
  • Integrate parts with full sub here doc
  • These can be done in subs if complex
• Use .= to build up code (a great and underused op)
• Nested indents need to be recursive and tracked with an $indent var
• Use Data::Dumper to generate clean strings
• Generate subs for later execution
• Don't eval code to execute immediately
• Give access to generated code
  • Very useful for debugging
  • Also for testing and optimization
  • Users can cut/paste code and bypass generation and module loading