I am deeply frustrated and it's not just because I'm stuck in this monastery with a bunch of bald blokes.

I'm never too good with scoping and I'm sure this is a dumb question but here goes. I've been using a hash for a long time within perl files in my webroot/cgi-bin directory that I initialise in the opening file with our %prod; Then in other files that are "use"d, I declare our %prod; and happily use it.

Now I've been gradually turning object oriented in my old age and for the first time, I want to use %prod in a package file called webroot/MG/Product.pm

Now when I do our %prod; and try to use it, I can't - it isn't populated. Presumably %prod is no longer in scope - perhaps due to the location of the file not being in the same directory? Anyway, please please can someone tell me how I can access %prod from my package. There seems to be very little on the function "our" in manuals and tutorials.

thanks.

In reply to our scope and packages by jfrm

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