Hi all -

I'm wrestling with a little problem whose solution seems close at hand but remains elusive. I'd like to be able to use different modules depending on runtime conditions.

The modules that I would like to swap between export many functions, and in general, these functions have typically been called like someFunction. NB: someFunction is not passed null as in someFunction();

perlsub was enlightening but didn't quite answer this question. 

use ModuleA;
function_from_ModuleA;    # This works....
function_from_ModuleA();  # and so does this...

# Ah, but here's the rub...
eval "use $desired_module";
...
function_from_desired_module;   # nope. bareword.
function_from_desired_module(); # works!

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Might someone be able to explain this to me? Thanks in advance for your wisdom.

In reply to eval use, exported functions, barewords by Anonymous Monk

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