Dear Monks, I'm confused how main imports symbols from a package. My main package includes a path to my modules with 
use lib "/home/me/lib/perl5";

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My module, common.pm, sits in directory Rose under perl5. It starts off like 
common.pm

sub return_address{
print "rose garden";
}
...
1;

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Inside main, return_address is called with 
common::return_address();

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but not with 
Rose::common::return_address();

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for then the subroutine is undefined. So I'm doing something wrong; tachyon uses this last form in "Simple Module Tutorial" for example. Besides, what about my other directory of modules, Tulip which also contains a package common.pm. How do I call it from main? Begging your pardon for my errors and thanking you for your advice, RW

In reply to modules and namespace by RandomWalk

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