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in reply to namespace hacking with globs

Perhaps do it the other way?

Take a reference to the array in the other namespace, and fill that up. 

my $ar = \@OtherNameSpace::Ar;
doTheThingWhichPopulatesBigArray($ar);

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That way you've still only got one copy of the data.

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