Seriously, don't.

Use a global hash of values instead, if you're going to do that at all. You still don't need to create separate little subroutines, though if you did, it wouldn't really be that bad. 

my %globals = map { $_ => undef } qw/ all allowed names here including
+ DoDebug /;

sub dynConf {
  my ($name, $val) = @_;
  if (exists $globals{$name})
  {
    $globals{$name} = $val;
  }
  else
  {
    die "Huh?  No such variable: $name";
  }
}

# create the get-functions
for (keys %globals)
{
  # probably could do this without eval STR, but let's keep it simple
  eval "sub get_$_ { $globals{'$_'} }";
}

# or just one get-function
sub get_global
{
  my $name = shift;
  if (exists $globals{$name})
  {
    $globals{$name}
  }
  else
  {
    die "No such global: $name";
  }
}

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Really, is that so bad?

In reply to Re: flavors of "defined" by Tanktalus
in thread flavors of "defined" by Wiggins

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