Frederic Briere wrote: > > Sure, just pre-declare the sub, which happens at compile time: > > sub DOH();
um, i said i want to do it at run time. the module doing the defining doesn't know who's going to be calling it, and the callers are depending on the module to make usable constant barewords out of the names they give it. so all the compile-time stuff doesn't help, which is why i asked for a way to do it at run time. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"