That's exactly what I want to do -- thank you for your understanding my question! However ... (sigh),... how can I do it without explicitly passing "__PACKAGE_" at the point of call. How can I tell what package 'main_package_vars' is called invoked from w/o explicitly passing it the package name?

After reading your response, I tried some way of delaying the interpretation of '__PACKAGE__' to interpret it at expansion time, below, but I think I keep ending up with 'two' in main or in the packaged named '__PACKAGE__', which is no help! If you see what I mean...?

I.e., if I was using some package like Class::Accessor, I don't see, yet, how it is getting the current package name and putting the routines into the current package's name space, but this is definitely the direction I'm looking for...maybe I just need to play around with this idea a bit and I'll bump into it...(?)...

In reply to Re^2: Perl templating/macro creating using 'BEGIN'... by perl-diddler
in thread Perl templating/macro creating using 'BEGIN'... by perl-diddler

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