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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:04:43 +0930

PERL Question

I have a module called wdbMain which has this:

(wdbMain.pm)
...
@ISA=qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK=qw(setup...);
...

It's in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux/WDB/

Now I have:

...
#! /usr/bin/perl

use WDB::wdbMain qw(setup);

print setup();
...

However, perl 5.6 complains that:

&main::setup ... doesn't exist

I thought that my "use" would bring "setup" into my namespace.

I've discovered that replacing setup() with wdbMain::setup() works
without a glitch. I've tried substituting "setup" with foo, camel and
yodling just in case I've clobbered some preexisting function called
"setup"; in all these cases the same behaviour occurs.


I know there's a reason why this is so, but I just can't figure it out
at the moment.

DSL

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