Maybe not important to you, but that won't work if your client code needs both Foo::Module and Bar::Module. The BEGIN block will only be run once. (And the code you posted doesn't work period since __PACKAGE__ is "Base::Module" in this case, not Foo::Module or Bar::Module!)

Instead I think I'd have the base class define an init() method which the sub-classes call in a BEGIN:

   BEGIN { __PACKAGE__->init() }

The code in init() could do roughly what you have in your BEGIN block, but I might make it a bit more configurable by using a method to get the config class name and defining that in each sub-class:

   sub config_class { "Foo::Config" }

You could have a default implementation of that method in your base class that does the namespace manipulation.

Does that make sense?

-sam

In reply to Re: "use"ing from dynamic namespace by samtregar
in thread "use"ing from dynamic namespace by dsheroh

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