Like this:

  $a = ${ $module . '::countries' };
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But note that you'll need to turn off strict references for this to work. That should tell you that it's probably a bad idea, right?

But if you're doing object-oriented programming, you can use package names as "objects", like so:

  $a = $module->countries;
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and you can defined sub test::countries to return the contents of that variable.

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