in reply to Perl Modules

pls don't tell me to get a dang book. none of that stuff is at all helpful.

Try Ulysses - I think you'd enjoy it. (Edit: the parent post has subsequently been amended to introduce some formatting thus making this reference rather more obscure)

so i put "use pm::security;" at the top of my "user.pm" file. all's good so far, i think. building on my setup, i eventually come across things like "subroutine banned(...) is not defined". I'm like thinking how can that be. I STARE at my code and just can't figure out how "use pm::security;" in my "user.pm" module can say that "banned($$)" is not defined, when it's right here in the security.pm file! makes NO SENSE!

See Exporter or just call the sub via the full name eg: pm::security::banned ($foo, $bar)

Other things to read: perlmod and package. Also Coping with scoping.

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Re^2: Perl Modules
by jamroll (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2017 at 17:43 UTC
    oh yes. i am using exporter, don't get me wrong there. always.
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      Well, here's an SSCCE showing chained packages, one of which is an Exporter, the other not. Compare and contrast.

      #!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

package pm::security;
use Exporter;
our @ISA = ('Exporter');
our @EXPORT = ('banned');

sub banned {
    print "Banned: @_\n";
}
1;

package user;
pm::security->import; # If in separate files, "use pm::security;" will
+ do.

sub do_stuff {
    # We call banned without its package prepended because banned is
    # exported by package pm::security
    banned (@_);
}
1;

package main;
# If in separate files, "use user;" here

# We call do_stuff with its package prepended because do_stuff is not
# exported by package user.
user::do_stuff ('foo', 'bar');

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      If your packages behave differently then you'll have to provide a similar SSCCE displaying the precise problem in order for others to help you get to the bottom of it.

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[d/l]
        neat. i will pay attention to this SSCCE document from now as best i can.
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