On Jun 20, Nick Transier said:
>package blah;
>{
>sub foo {
> print "I do not understand perl"
Missing a semicolon above...
> return 5;
>}
>}
>
>Now, how do I call this function from outside the package?
blah::foo() will work.
>$perlversion = blah::->foo;
That works too, but kinda kruftily.
>but it doesn't work, it asks for explicit package name.
That's on your variable. You need to declare it.
my $version = blah::foo();
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