Dear Monks,
here is what I'd like to be able to implement:
- creates variables and/or functions in file foo.pl. e.g.: 
$text = "foo";

sub func { return "something"; }
...
...

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- now I would like to load this file so that its content is encapsulated either in a hash table or in an object. E.g. in file main.pl, I would like to use a function such as capsule that would create such object: 
$obj = capsule("foo.pl");

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so that I can now access $obj{"text"}, or $obj->text... I could also call $obj->func().

- in general there would be many different files such as foo.pl, and I want to access all variables from a top-level script.
In fact I want to make all declarations from foo.pl which seem to be global, as local from the top level script. I don't want to use different namespaces.

thanks in advance! nictam

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