Eh? I ran this test and it seems to allow hashrefs just fine. I haven't looked at your scratchpad yet, though.

[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst.pm
#!/usr/bin/perl

package tst;

use warnings;
use strict;

sub import {
  my $self = shift;
  my $hr   = shift;
  print "foo: `$hr->{foo}'\n";
}

1;
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;

use lib '.';
use tst { foo => 'bar' };
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ ./tst
foo: `bar'
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P.S. The link to your scratchpad doesn't work with the underscores.

Update: Yes, as tye points out, the error message is coming from your Exporter::VA module. I can't seem to find, in the code on your scratchpad, where you define the handler for the hashref to your module's (Exporter::VA's) import.

Update2: I found it, in find_export_def(). A lot of indirection going on in that module. I'm still working out where find_export_def() is called from.

Update3:Well, it looks like the whole problem is that find_export_def() isn't called, because export_import() is never called. It looks like you're exporting &export_import as the import routine that the user of the module will get, when you should be using it as your import routine and exporting the results of generate_import() (which is what you're actually using as your import routine). Um, or something?

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