First of all, all lowercase module names are reserved for perl pragmas. You better name your modules "Interface1" and "Interface2" respectively.
For example, if I call the function terraform which is described in both interfaces and the variable $version is 1, then the interface1.pm version of terraform will be used. If version was 2, interface2.pm would be used.
If I get you right you want something like this:
#file Interface1.pm package Interface1; sub foo { return "I am one!\n"; } 1; #file Interface2.pm package Interface2; sub foo { return "I am two!\n"; } 1; #file script.pl use strict; use warnings; use Interface1; use Interface2; my $interface; $interface = "Interface1"; print $interface->foo(); $interface = "Interface2"; print $interface->foo();
Edit:
or without "class method syntax":
$interface = "Interface1"; eval "print $interface" . "::foo()"; $interface = "Interface2"; eval "print $interface" . "::foo()";
Note that you have to use the concatenation here, because perl would interpret
eval "print $interface::foo()";
as a reference to the variable $foo in package Interface1 and that fails.


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Re: Calling same named functions from different modules by holli
in thread Calling same named functions from different modules by geckosan

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