in reply to Same function multiples unknown modules

Depending on how much interaction you want and what plug-ins / add-ins you want and provide, either Module::Pluggable, possibly together with NEXT or a really simple mixin-based approach might work for you. The following code shows how several files can create code in the same namespace:

package AddIns; use strict; our %functions; our $AUTOLOAD; sub register { my ($class,$key, $sub) = @_; $functions{$key} ||= []; push @{ $functions{$key} }, $sub; }; sub AUTOLOAD { my (@args) = @_; $AUTOLOAD =~ m!.*::([^:]+)$! or die "Strange subroutine '$AUTOLOAD' called."; my $key = $1; die "Unknown slot '$key' called" unless exists $functions{$key}; for my $sub (@{ $functions{$key} }) { eval { $sub->(@args); }; if ($@) { warn "Error while calling slot '$key' : $@"; }; }; }; package AddIn::First; AddIn->register('runonce', \&runonce); sub runonce { print "myfirstaddin" }; package AddIn::Second; AddIn->register('runonce', \&runonce); sub runonce { print "mysecondaddin" }; package main; AddIn->runonce; # All of this is untested though