I think you're going to make things worse in the long term if you try to put references to vars in main:: namespace.

Is there any reason you can't put the conf vars in their own module and then start the other modules with:

use Conf;
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Look into using AUTOLOAD in the Conf module, and then:

# change
my $one = $conf->{'db_database'};

# to
my $conf = new Conf;
my $one = $conf->db_database;
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I'll leave you to work out the AUTOLOAD and 'new' methods for your instance :)

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cLive ;-)

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