I am dynamically creating packages because I am loading snippets of code with require that I didn't write and I need to eliminate the odds of namespace collisions. So, I make a package with 
# just a quick simplified version
my $package = "Foo";
loader();

sub loader {
    eval {"package $package"};
    require "$package"; # assume $package is in @INC
}

# now I need to address variables in Foo::,
# but I painted myself into a corner where the
# only thing I can think of is soft references -
# a Bad Thing.

print $$package::somehash{somevalue};

# to really have fun I was also trying to run subs
# that existed in Foo::

my $action = "testfoo";
&{"$$package::actionshash{$Main::action}"};

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I know soft-references are bad and I am very open to other suggestions. I am also open to other ways to use dynamically loaded code without collisions. The reason I didn't put the package declaration in the code being loaded is because then I wouldn't know the name of the namespace for that code. Thanks, alex

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