You could also so something simpler like keep your constants in a package namespace and refer to them that way from other packages and the main daemon. This reduces clutter in the global namespace and only requires the file to be processed once for all of them.

For example: 

#file1.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Constants;
print "ONE=", $Constants::ONE, "\n";
print "TWO=", $Constants::TWO, "\n";
print "THREE=", $Constants::THREE, "\n";

#Constants.pm
package Constants;
$Constants::ONE = 1;
$Constants::TWO = 2;
1;

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A big problem with this approach is that you don't get compile time checking when you refer to a variable in another package. This is shown above with $Constants::THREE which only causes a problem at run time (at least in Perl 5.6.1).

Even with that drawback, this is a technique I use.

-- Eric Hammond

In reply to Re: Re: Re: the #include business by esh
in thread the #include business by Anonymous Monk

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