Re: How can I avoid creating two instances of the same object

If you are absolutely sure that the two packages will not clash using the same instance of $dbh, you can do something similar to:

package MyDbConnection;
use DBI;
#...
our $dbh;
sub get_dbh {
  unless $dbh {
    #real connection here
  }
  return $dbh;
}
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...and the User and Company packages should call MyDbConnection::get_dbh()

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Re^2: How can I avoid creating two instances of the same object by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2006 at 15:21 UTC
The problem isn't that I don't want have multiple dbh's out there. There are several ways to avoid this. I just don't want to have 30 lines of code that says Company->new, User->new, Address->new. How can I avoid having to call new for each package?	[reply]