This is an "anti-Perl" idea -> a wrong one. In Perl a sub name has "package" scope, usually, but not always one package "name space" per file.

In a function oriented package, the subs that are meant to be called by others are specified in the @EXPORT (), @EXPORT_OK() lines. In an OO module, you will see subs with names that begin with "_". Those are often names of methods (subroutines) that shouldn't be called by outsiders.

Basically, I suggest "play by the rules and get along with others". I think you are doomed to a life of unhappiness and pain if you insist that Perl work like your other language, which I am guessing is Java. On the plus side, a Perl program is often 1/10th or less than the size of a Java program, so there is less to keep track of!

Perl does allow you to "shoot yourself in the foot". If you provide a "fully qualified name", you can call that sub X in spite of naming and export conventions. I would say simply: "don't do that".

In reply to Re: private sub routine by Marshall
in thread private sub routine by saranperl

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