This is essentially the same as what Rob suggested, thanks to both of you. I tried this approach and ran into issues, I will give it another shot. Probably I was doing something stupid.
Note that I mistakenly left out a detail before, that I am making a module that uses Inline::C, EE::MM, and that pre-compiles the C code. This shouldn't preclude this approach as far as I know, but the variables I created in the first BEGIN block weren't accessible in the use statement. Like I said I was probably doing something wrong. -- John.
