Hi,

I am writing a simple plugin system. I'm not sure whether I'm going to use it, but it's more like a way to explore Perl.

So, I have an array which contains packages names. Those packages should have a sub 'ReceiveMessage'.
A package called Communications contains a sub 'SendMessage'.
This SendMessage loops over the array to check which packages do have a ReceiveMessage and send a message to it. Currently, the array consists of one item: "Communications".

package Communications;

sub SendMessage {
    my $msg = join("", @_);
    foreach my $cpack (@main::plugpack) {
        if (defined eval "${cpack}::ReceiveMessage") {
            eval "\&${cpack}::ReceiveMessage('$msg')";
        }
    }
}

sub ReceiveMessage {
    print "Communications::ReceiveMessage('$_[0]')\n";
}

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Of course I call the SendMessage sub once: &Communications::SendMessage("Hello, World!");
The strange thing is, I get output like I called SendMessage twice: 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at D:\device
+\modem\internet\Xitami\cgi-bin\index.pl line 48.
Communications::ReceiveMessage('')
Communications::ReceiveMessage('Hello, World!')

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It appears to me that ReceiveMessage is not only called when the message is sent, but also when SendMessage checks it's existance. How can I prevent this?

Update: just clarified the last paragraph a little
Update: removed line of code which was coded in a inconsistent style and only was there for debug purposes :)

In reply to See if a certain package has a certain sub, without executing that sub by muba

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