Well bretheren I'm in a bit of a pickle! I'm writing my first Perl Module and though it is working there is a small but irritating problem! My module called Hoos has several house-keeping related subroutines in it. In an ordinary script I have "use Hoos ;" and a call to one of the subs Hoos::mail_log(params). This works fine but I would prefer to omit the Hoos:: from the call. To this end I've included the following - 
use Exporter ;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter)

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in the Hoos.pm code. My script now fails as a result of "an undefined routine main::mail_log" being called. Next I changed the Hoos.pm code to include - 
package Hoos ;
our @EXPORT = qw( list of subs mail_log mail end_it etc) ;
use Exporter ;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);

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All of which was lifted from the Perl Objects References & Modules manual. None of this has made a blind bit of a difference, the only way I can call any of the subs in Hoos.pm is to prefix the routine name by Hoos:: - can anyone tell me how to fix this.

Cheers,
Ronnie "Novice" Cruickshank

PS I don't pretend to understand the Exporter/Import business yet so don't presume I know very much!

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