Hi,
I have a special requirement where I ended up in defining a subroutine with same as another subroutine already existed. I found like one instance is never executed and I fixed by renaming my subroutine. But I wish to know why its behaves like this. If any monks can help me, it will be great.

My package looks like

package tests;

sub new{
        bless {},shift;
}

sub myfunction_one{

        print "This is myfunction_one\n";

        sub myfunction_two{
#I never remember this sub existed
                print "This is myfunction_two Inside\n";
        }

        &myfunction_two();
}


sub myfunction_two{
# This is my sub, but I renamed it to fix the issue

        print "This is myfunction_two Outside\n";
}
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My perl script looked like

#!/usr/bin/perl

use tests;
my $obj = new tests();

$obj->myfunction_one();
$obj->myfunction_two();
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Output :

This is myfunction_one
This is myfunction_two Outside
This is myfunction_two Outside
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I expected the subroutine "myfunction_two" defined inside the sub "myfunction_one" to execute when I call $obj->myfunction_one();. I expected an output like:

This is myfunction_one
This is myfunction_two Inside
This is myfunction_two Outside
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Is there way in which I can have both subroutines with same name and invoke them independently without conflict? I request you to help me in understanding what is happening there. Thank you in advance for the help.

Cheers !

--VC

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