I tried that, same error. "$perlversion requires explicit package name"
>From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Nick Transier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: method calls outside the package
>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:53:50 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Jun 20, Nick Transier said:
>
> >package blah;
> >{
> >sub foo {
> > print "I do not understand perl"
>
>Missing a semicolon above...
>
> > return 5;
> >}
> >}
> >
> >Now, how do I call this function from outside the package?
>
>blah::foo() will work.
>
> >$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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