Ah, I see, well, there are a few tricks you can do for plain .pl files... you could do (sort of) what Exporter is doing, which is symbol table munging, or you could cheat a little and do something like

   ## beware! very much untested, it's incomplete,      
   ## and it needs lots of error checking.
   use IO::File;

   sub import
   {
      ## if the module is a plain .pl file...
      my $fh = IO::File->new( $module );
      local $/ = undef;
      my $text = <$fh>;
      undef $fh;

      my $caller_pkg = ((caller())[0]
      eval "package $caller_pkg; $text";
   }

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Obviously, this is a hack and it won't always work (furthermore, it's ugly). But at least you could *attempt* to load them files to the correct namespace. ;)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: use/require $MODULE (a variable) by lestrrat
in thread use/require $MODULE (a variable) by cadphile

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