I am wondering if it is possible to scope an entire namespace. I have an application I am trying to use under mod_perl. One of the objects dynamically require/do's a file that containes serialized data. This data is then used by assigning from the name space to an objects instance data. This happens like so:


eval "require './data_to_import.dat'" if -f './data_to_import.dat';
$self->{imported_data} = $foo_name_space::data unless $@;

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This works great until it's tried under mod_perl. Data is being shared and is showing up where it's not supposed to. Now I can't redesign the whole application, but the speed boost of mod_perl is too enticing to say 'forget it'. Is there a way to do something along the lines of the following (I am aware this doesn't work):

{ local *foo_name_spane::data;  eval "require './data_to_import.dat'";
+  $self->{imported_data} = $foo_name_space::data unless $@; }

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In reply to scoped namespace? by Anonymous Monk

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