Am I right in saying that you are wanting to specify static variables (as in configuration data) as Perl code, but contained in a number of different files?

You can use Config::Loader Config::Merge with your data contained in different files, in a directory tree. Config::Loader Config::Merge will do the work of loading them into a hash.

Or are you wanting to be able to access the same data via a hash deref or via a function call, in which case you want to use overload.

Clint

Update: Changed the module name to its new name