Is there some reason why you couldn't just have your module export the variables you'd like to expose to it's users? :)

package MyModule;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT_OK $name $street $city $zip);
BEGIN {
  @ISA = qw(Exporter);
  @EXPORT_OK = qw($name $street $city $zip);
  require Exporter;
}

my $callback;

sub set_callback(&) { $callback = shift }

sub exec_callback {
  local(($name, $street, $city, $zip) = @_);
  $callback->();
}

package Main;
BEGIN { import MyModule qw($name $street $city $zip) }

MyModule::set_callback { $name =~ /^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/ and $zip =~/^\d+$/ }
+;

MyModule::exec_callback('Bob', '600 1st St.', 'Beverly Hills', '90210'
+)
        and print "Record is valid.\n";

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Once MyModule was moved into it's own file, you could replace the ugly BEGIN { import ... } line with just use MyModule qw($name $street $city $zip).

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Callback Design by saucepan
in thread Callback Design by MeowChow

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