I've got a few debugging subroutines that I'd like to be TRULY global - that is, to be automatically exported into every package, so I can call them without a package prefix. This is for development only and I'm willing to resort to hackery to make it work.

So at the beginning of my application I do

   #!/usr/bin/perl
   use Debug;

and then in some module

   package SomeModule;
   dp $foo;

where 'dp' is one of the subroutines auto-exported by Debug. Note that SomeModule did not have to say 'use Debug' or 'Debug::dp'.

I figured this had to exist in CPAN, but several searches did not turn it up.

My initial idea was for Debug to

Yes, this is the height of Laziness, as I could just type Debug::dp everywhere (or even d::dp if I named the package d.) But I figure with the saved keystrokes I might make up the development time by the end my programming life.

Thanks for any tips!

Jon

In reply to Truly global subroutines - Auto-exporting symbols into all packages by swartz

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