I have a hash where the keys are method names and the values have stuff I want the methods to do... my module dynamically generates these methods in the BEGIN block, and I would like to export these methods:

require Exporter;

our @ISA = qw( Exporter );

our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ qw( ) ] );
our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } );

my %METHODS = (
  foo => 'bar',
  bo  => 'baz',
);

our @EXPORT = (%keys %METHODS);

BEGIN {
  foreach my $method (keys %METHODS) {
    no strict 'refs';
    *$methods = sub {
      return $METHODS{ $method };
    };
  }
}

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The dynamic methods are generated with no problem, but it seems @EXPORT doesn't contain these values. I tried to modify the begin block as below but it still doesn't work:

BEGIN {
  foreach my $method (keys %METHODS) {
    push @EXPORT, $method;
    no strict 'refs';
    *$methods = sub {
      return $METHODS{ $method };
    };
  }
}

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I thought the 'import' function was run after the BEGIN block, so @EXPORT should have these values. Obviously I'm wrong. An explanation and advice would help...

In reply to Why doesn't @EXPORT = (keys %METHODS) work? by rrwo

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