Hello,

Question: Can the use of "use" be considered same as the include file functionality?

Goal: The Goal at higher level is to define all constants in one place. These can then be used by all of the modules that share these constants. However I don't want to have to explicitly classify each use of the constant with $PkgName:: classifier from each of the calling module.

Approach 1
If I have a file MyConstants.pm which has only "use constants ..." type statements, no other statements not even package <PkgName>; then can I still do

use MyConstants;

to get all the constants in the callers nampespace?

Approach 2)
Probably the better way of doing this is to define MyConstants as a package and export all the symbols out so that the caller would automatically import them when they do "use MyConstants ;" .

Looking for some advice.

Best Regards.

In reply to Is "use" same as include? by Anonymous Monk

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