$ntCapabitilies needs to be declared using our if you want to share its data between modules. The function is working presumably because it was defined in the same namespace as $ntCapabilities and hence can see its data. The accessor method is in a different namespace (Octopus?) and so can't see its data, even if you import the name. into the other namespace. This is because the imported variable is a package ("our") variable rather than a lexically scoped ("my") variable. All your values were assigned to the "my" variable, not the "our" variable.

Two other points:

One really should use warnings, not just strict. If you don't like all the warnings that use warnings; spews out, then clean up the code that is causing them. Getting rid of it to quiet the warnings is only going to cause you a world of trouble. If you have a very specific reason to do something normally warned about (e.g. you need to munge the symbol table), then turn off a specific warning for a specific block. Turning of warnings globally is a bad idea. Someone is paying you a lot of money to develop this code. It is important to give yourself every chance possible to catch mistakes.

You and your team could have done a much better job of reducing this code to the essentials than you did. For example,

• you could remove all data from $ntCapabilities except one or two elements needed to show the problem.
• you could remove all "use" and "require" statements except the ones causing the problem. We don't have your family of modules and can't reliably run your code to see how it works on our system if you leave those extra "use" and "require" statements in.

Best, beth

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