Hello monks,

I've question about dispatching to a module's method when two modules have the same method name. The following is a example of the coding I'm trying to achieve:

package Module1;

use strict;

use Exporter qw(import);
our @EXPORT = qw(main);

sub main {
   do_something();
}

1;

package Module2;

use strict;

use Exporter qw(import);
our @EXPORT = qw(main);

sub main {
   do_something2();
}

1;

script.pl

my $query = get_param('page') || 'main';

my %pages = (
    main => \&main, # to go to Module1 main
    another_page => \&main, #to go to Module2 main
);
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I would like the name "main" to be dispatched to Module1's "main" method and "another_page" to be dispatched to Module2's "main". The easy way out is to give Module2's "main" a different name. But if there's a conflict of method names, is there a way to unambiguously call a module's method?

Hope my question is clear and many thanks in advance.

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