I can't see anything blatantly wrong. But looking at your node, several questions come up:
Why not make %config set inside _fill_config?
If the only way to set %config is by calling _fill_config, why don't you set %config directly in there?

Are you using AutoLoader/SelfLoader/load?
If you are, and _change_config/_fill_config are in the area that's not always loaded, they will not see the "same" package lexical (it will be a package global to them).

Why the flattening?
You realize of course that if you're returning a hash, you're essentially flattening it to a list and return that. From an effieciency point of view, it's much better to return a reference to a hash (and probably have the package lexical $config be a reference as well).

Are you sure _parse_file works ok?
Double check in _fill_config that actually the thing you expect, is being returned.

I think there are other things going on in your example that I find strange. But for now I'll attribute those to the making of the (pseudo) takeout.

Hope this helps

Liz

In reply to Re: Changing package variable via object-instance by liz
in thread Changing package variable via object-instance by BioHazard

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