I know you can do this with closures, but I'm wondering if there is a better way. Here is the example: 

a();
b();
print "$var\n";

sub a {
 local $var = "a\n";
  c();
}

sub b {
  local $var = "b\n";
  c();
}

sub c {
  # i'm pleasing you to print a or b
  print "var: $var";
}

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So you can see, I want c() to have access to the calling sub's my variables. I know that if I eval the creation of that sub in a() or b() it will work, however I don't want to have to do that for every sub that calls c().

Is there a hack to do the above?

If not, here is my next best choice... the sub c() is actually spit out by a class and evaled in the callers package, is it possible to have the eval happen in the callers namespace?

That is: 

$b = new SubMaker();
sub a {
   my $var;
   $b->make_sub("subname");
   subname();
}

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where SubMaker::make_sub() evals in the callers namespace so that subname() now has access to $var. Is that possible?

thanks.

In reply to access to my variables from other subs by joe

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