Hi, dear monks, I have a question about Perl packages. In part to solve namespace collision problems in mod_perl, I have to assign a package name to all of my objects and librairies. I've looked a lot on the web for complete answers on the correct way to do that, but some things are still confusing... I have the current dir configuration: 
/myApp/cgi/login.cgi
/myApp/config/webData.pm

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login.cgi:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

use lib "../config";

use webData qw(GetLinks);
use strict;

...

my $links_ref = MyPackages::Config::webData::GetLinks();


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webData.pm:
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package MyPackages::Config::webData;

use Exporter ();

@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK = qw(GetLinks GetEmails);

use strict;
...

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But what if I want to simply tell login.cgi:

my $links_ref = GetLinks();

instead of

my $links_ref = MyPackages::Config::webData::GetLinks();

Isn't there a way, in login.cgi header, to load the GetLinks function by it's complete package name, so that we can later in the file only use the short function name? And also, with the way I first described, I can access the GetEmails function by calling MyPackages::Config::webData::GetEmails(), even thought it wasn't listed in the use webData qw(GetLinks); list of keyword. What is the good, normal way to procede for applications like in this case?

In reply to Good package practices by joe_kool

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