I agree with IlyaM, a singleton makes more sense for this. A singleton is an object that can only be instantiated once -- successive requests for a new object just return the same one.

The Class::Singleton module probably has one of the highest POD-to-code ratios on CPAN, but it's very useful.

Your config module:

package My::Config;

use strict;
use base qw( Class::Singleton );

sub _new_instance {
  my ( $class ) = @_;
  my %data = (
     var1 => 'This is var1',
     var2 => [ 'This', 'is', 'var2' ],
  );
  return bless( \%data, $class );
}

1;

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And you can use it:

  my $conf = My::Config->instance;
  print "Config for var1 is $conf->{var1}\n";

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Easy! Good luck.

Chris
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In reply to Re: how to make a universally inherited method? by lachoy
in thread how to make a universally inherited method? by exphysicist

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