Hi Monks,

I'm looking for a way to have identical global variables in every package, and a single module that utilizes the data from them

Example:

package my_first; 
use Debug; # Imports in sub debug
our $DEBUG_FLAG =1;
debug("Print me"); #prints: Print me
1;

package my_second; 
use Debug; 
our $DEBUG_FLAG =0;
debug("Print me"); #prints none
1;

package Debug; 
our $DEBUG_FLAG =0; #Default value 
sub debug($) {
if(DEBUG_FLAG){
say $_[0]; 
}
}
1;

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Hope this is clear, appreciate any help.Looking for smart suggestions, better ways to do this (not OOP wise), and any other tidbit you can think of.

In reply to Overriding Global Variables by Mano_Man

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