Hello monks! I come seeking wisdom... or at least proper syntax. I have a hash of arrays like so: 
my %whatever = (
    'a' => [1,2,3,4],
    'b' => [5,6,7,8],
);

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normally, I would extract the values in classic camel fashion: 
    my $extract = $whatever{'a'}[0]; #should = 1

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but in this case I'm writing a rule action for the excellent module Parse::RecDescent, so its in another namespace, and must be fully qualified. I tried doing 
my $extract = $::whatever{'a'}[0]; #should = 1

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and 
my $extract = $main::whatever{'a'}[0]; #should = 1

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as well as various attempts to play with references, but all to no avail. RecDescent always complains that it must be fully qualified, or I get an undef returned. Anybody experienced this ? Or better yet, know the answer?
Thanks for listening...
Jim

In reply to hashes of arrays in another name space by Anonymous Monk

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