So, let me embarrassingly get back to basics for a sec. I'm pretty familiar with oo programming, but none of that applies to anything I'm doing in this particular project. The issue I'm dealing with is simply that I have a bunch of different functions separated (into different files) based on the nature of their purpose. In other words, I'm creating what I'd like to call a bunch of libraries of functions (and exported variables), not a bunch of objects and classes. I chose to implement these libraries in the form of Packages because I figured that would be efficient for perl and yield better execution performance for the apps that call them. But, given what I'm running into, I think I've chosen the wrong approach.

So, since I don't need classes or objects, but I do need to create libraries, what's a more appropriate approach using perl?

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