This is one of the points that made it interesting. File::Basename exports its functions by default. The library is a standard perl 5 formatted module with a seperately defined namespace that doesn't export anything by default. In particular, the offending library routine is not imported or used by the parent program. Yet the clash occurs. However, if I turn off the default export behavior of File::Basename (by importing with "use File::Basename();") in either or both of the routines, the problem goes away on its own. Not exactly what I was expecting. What namespace is the default behavior exporting too in this case? the parent? If the export is to different namespaces, why the clash?

I see I forgot to include a package statement ahead of the subroutine declaration in my original post so I can see where you would think everything was occuring in the same namespace. My apologies for the confusion.

PJ
use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;

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