well, if you want to do this and really, really want to
avoid creating a proper module using exporter....
You can do something like this:
$name = \config::name;
in your calling script. Note that $name cannot be
declared by "my" in config.pl
Again, I want to stress I would never use something
like this. It is some much easier, simpler and safer
to convert config.pl into a module and then use exporter
to expose whatever you need.