Re: our scope and packages

Your problem is that Perl scopes according to packages. It is not that %prod is in a different file. It is that it is in a different package. The cheesy solution is to just make %prod in your current package be the copy in the root package, which is called main:

*prod = \%main::prod;
our %prod;
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Re^2: our scope and packages by jfrm (Monk) on Aug 28, 2008 at 23:12 UTC
Thank you; it all sounds highly feasible. However, this is unfamiliar territory. Should I be putting this statement *prod = in the originating file (it isn't an OO package - at least I don't think it is) where %prod is populated or should I be putting it in the package that currently can't access it? Or both? thanks a lot for your help.	[reply]
Re^3: our scope and packages by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 28, 2008 at 23:23 UTC
In the package that currently can't access it. Actually the really right way to do it is to move %prod into a configuration module that might look like this: `package My::Configuration; use strict; use Export qw(import); our @EXPORT_OK = qw(%prod); our %prod = ( ... ); 1;` [download] and then somewhere in main and in your other package insert the line: `use My::Configuration qw(%prod);` [download] Doing that you won't even need the our declaration because importing it declares it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: our scope and packages by jfrm (Monk) on Aug 28, 2008 at 23:36 UTC
Thanks, you've no idea how happy fixing this has made me. I could kiss you. (but this might be a result of living for so long with hundreds of men in brown gowns).	[reply]
Re^5: our scope and packages by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 29, 2008 at 11:33 UTC
Re^6: our scope and packages by wol (Hermit) on Aug 29, 2008 at 12:55 UTC


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