It obviously doesn't work quite how you're thinking. One of the problems is that package does not accept the namespace as a dynamic argument. The namespace must be a hard-coded string of characters. However, all is not lost. You can have everything you want, just not the way you're doing it: 

package My;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $pkg_sub = __PACKAGE__ . '::A';

# some methods for package My...

{
    no strict 'refs';
    *{$pkg_sub . '::new'} = sub {
        my $class = shift;
        return bless {ref($_[0]) ? %{$_[0]} : @_}, $class;
     };

    *{$pkg_sub . '::greet' } = sub { print 'Hello ' . shift()->{'name'
+} . ".\n"; };
}

1;

package main;

my $mya = My::A->new({name => 'Dave'});
$mya->greet();

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You can bless a reference into any string you want. And in this case, you can assign a subroutine reference to any typeglob you want. In the example above I'm creating My::A::new, and My::A::greet. Yes, it's a little more work, but where there's work, there's a need for automation:

my %subs = (
    new   => sub { # constructor goes here... },
    greet => sub { # Greeter goes here... },
);

while (my ($name, $code) = each %subs) {
    no strict 'refs';
    *{$pkg_sub . '::' . $name} = $code;
}

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This hash based method has the advantage of releasing strict 'refs' in a much smaller scope. To be clear, you don't need a package My::A; statement to be able to create subroutines and methods in the My::A namespace; you just have to do without the conveniences package provides, crafting the subroutine namespaces manually.

And, in fact, this method is how Class:Builder works (snippet from Class::Builder):

{
    # ...

    no strict 'refs';
    
    # ...

    while (my ($name, $code) = each %methods){
      *{"$class"."::"."$name"} = $code;
    }
  }

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Dave

In reply to Re: Name of subpackage dependent on main package by davido
in thread Name of subpackage dependent on main package by Dirk80

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