linda w twaxvptwszvtlinxorg rick delaney wrote oct 25 2007 brandon black wrote post long attention span moment im interested seeing problem perhaps understand basic nature problem long example helpful didnt patience read either think may gist think another instance problem possibly important part problem shortening example dont know important detail vs reference creates dynamic ala local reference lexical ala perhaps insignificant details interspersed perl wl package f sub foo foo package g isa qwf print foo creates entry gs symbol table package g doesnt seem matter much reference foo package g isa qwf sub mysub return true matter call foo succeed fail undefined sub thought especially interesting interesting may live interesting times _0canfoo _0foo may work depending called sub dumbsub dummyfoo _0mysub call foo inside mysub fail though canfoo true _0foo direct call foo also fails even though reference foo lexical scope package main bless g omysub mysub work called print ofoo code0x8149624 undefined subroutine gfoo called line 9 remove line 5 prints foo see blead 588 yuprunning 588 thanks help simplifying wed 06 aug 2008 201226 0700 broken perl ooparentmethod call