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in reply to Avoiding variable conflict when importing modules

In this situation, whichever function sub was imported last will be called. If you have warnings enabled, you will get a warning when importing a function that has already been defined/imported; you won't get such a warning w/ a variable (at least I don't think you will).

This is why you have to be careful when writing modules that export; you can easily trample someone else's namespace. Which is part of the reason why module authors are encouraged to use @EXPORT_OK instead of @EXPORT; you give the user of your module the choice of which functions/variables he/she imports, plus you make it very explicit to any reader of your code (including you :) which functions and variables you're importing. Ie. you can look at the use line and *know* what you're importing into your namespace.