Hello,

I am trying to better understand symbol tables wrt packages. I am working with a .pm and a .pl along the following lines:

a.pm:

package a;
$fred = 'test';

b.pl:

#!/bin/perl

use strict;
use a;

print "$fred\n";


At its basest, I would like to print $fred without the use of Exporter. I am working with the notion of a shared globals file, and I want to share this between multiple packages without the overhead and hassle of @EXPORT and the whole Exporter module.

It seems like there should be a way to import the symbol table via a simple mass typeglob, but as of this writing I have not been able to figure out how. I can get as far as being able to print $main::fred by doing '*main = *a::;', but I want to get this down even more (ie to being able to simply print $fred).

I can do this long hand but I'm considering globals files of 1000s of globals potentially. More of a theoretical exercise than anything.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Importing Symbol Tables by moebius

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