On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:15:37 +1100
"Morton-Allen, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However both applications make use of the UNIERVSAL package to create
> universally accessible methods (to return the current database handle for
> example) within the application.
You don't need UNIVERSAL for the purpose. Try import().
package Foo;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(get_dbh);
sub get_dbh { ... }
package main;
use Foo; # will import get_dbh()
my $dbh = get_dbh;
--
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
