Suppose my package has 50 functions and each one contains an on-line help such as sub f {...}; f_help = "f does this and that..."; where each help string is about 50 lines of 80 chars. Would this be anything of a resource hog? (does it noticably effect speed of compilation, runtime, or memory?) Thanks John and Chris. Xah, xah@best.com http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html -- perl5 -e'print"%^*(\@#! just another very ^}@&(!% obfuscated hacker\n"' ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch