I kind of asked this question at the beginning of the week or so, but received no answers, so I'm asking a different way in the hopes that someone will answer. Sometimes the question is wrong...

So, back in 2000 someone asked how to make variably named packages.

My question is:
When you got back into main:: how would you call $Foo::a?

If you called it with:

print $Foo::a;
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That would work... BUT, its likely you wouldn't know the name of the package since it was variable. So you might try:

my $package = $input{somepackage}; # Foo was passed to input
print $$package::a;
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but that wouldn't work. So you might try:

$pleasework = eval{$$package::a};
print $pleasework;
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but that wouldn't work either, so you might go insane for a week and then ask the monks again! ;)

thanks, alex

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