in reply to Who's who in interpackage global vars

Good stuff to know - yes - but, forgive me if I find it annoying :P

I want an external module to be able to use a var from the main package -- and all good perlers use strict, but we can't use the two together :P

Whats the solution then? Just a simple "don't"?

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Re: Re: Who's who in interpackage global vars
by davorg (Chancellor) on Feb 20, 2001 at 21:11 UTC

    Well, define the variable you want to share as a package variable rather than a lexical variable.

    
use vars qw($var);

$var = 'some value';

&Package::printvar;

package Package;

sub printvar {
  print $main::var;
}

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