I just know I'm going to smack myself in the forehead when I get the answer to this, but I'm having a mental block today.

I'm making use of a CPAN package (DBIx::TextIndex as it happens, but it could be nearly any such package). Within the package the author has provided for extension to "your-favorite-RDBMS" by means of something like this: 

my $db = 'DBIx/TextIndex/' . $args{db} . '.pm';
require "$db";

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My problem arises in that the rest of the package makes heavy use of "my" variables. Those variables are invisible to the code I provide in my "database".pm file, and in fact any use of them results in a 'Global symbol "%FOO" requires explicit package name'.

Must I prefix FOO with DBIx::TextIndex::, or is there another way? Should the author of the package used some other means of declaring variables, or is the require at fault?
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In reply to How to override methods which use my() variables? by Mur

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