Okay Adam... use strict is in place. Here is another example of the problem: 
use strict; 
my $evaled = 0; 
 
# very simplified... 
sub makesub { 
  my($name) = @_; 
  return "sub $name { print \"\$var \"; }"; 
} 
 
sub a { 
  my($var) = @_; 
  if(!$evaled) { 
    eval(makesub("somesub")); 
    $evaled=1; 
  } 
} 
 
a("what"); 
somesub(); 
a("the"); 
somesub();

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prints:
what what
I'd like it to print "what the". Basically I don't want to have to eval every single time, it could be in the millions... but I'd still like access to the my variables of the sub that it was first created in. I don't even mind if I have to call the sub from the one that encloses it. i.e: 
sub a { 
  my($var) = @_; 
  if(!$evaled) { 
    eval(makesub("somesub")); 
    $evaled=1; 
  } 
  somesub();  # only place I call it from.
              # only want to eval once per
              # program execution, but have 
              # access to the my variables for
              # each calling of "a"
}

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Perhaps it's impossible.

In reply to Re: access to my variables from other subs by joe
in thread access to my variables from other subs by joe

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