Re: where to use "use" and package

The reason that you need to use the fully qualified name (File::Copy::copy(...)) is because by putting your use's before your package declaration, you've declared them into your main namespace.

Any time you're in a file and haven't declared the namespace with package, the namespace defaults to main. After your package declaration, you're in the Mods::Debug namespace.

So by putting the use's after the package declaration, you import them into the Mods::Debug namespace instead of main. This is the right way to do it.

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Re: where to use "use" and package by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 01, 2002 at 09:29 UTC
Case matters. The default package is called `main`, not `Main`. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: where to use "use" and package by smackdab (Pilgrim) on Aug 01, 2002 at 05:20 UTC
Thanks, I didn't realize that each namespace would have to load in the somewhat "standard" modules. thanks !!!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: where to use "use" and package by hossman (Prior) on Aug 01, 2002 at 07:08 UTC
If the methods in a module were really standard, they wouldn't be in that module -- they'd be builtins	[reply]