perlquestion Seumas I'm still new to object oriented perl and am having a very difficult time with one thing. <br> <br> I have a main script and then I have a number of packages. Each package has a class and some methods. <br> <br> At least two of these classes will be used by many (if not all) of the other packages. These two are called: <br> <br> <strong>Config.pm</strong><br> Creates an object containing all system config settings <br> <br> <strong>Login.pm</strong><br> Creates an object containing all the session/login info about the currently logged-in user. <br> <br> The problem is that specific instances of both objects need to be accessed by multiple (if not all) other packages. That is, I don't want to do a 'use Login; use Config;' inside of *every* package that needs the config or login data. <br> <br> If I have the following packages, I want them ALL to access the same instance of the login or config object, instead of each having it's own copy/instance - including the main script itself. <br> <br> Foo.pm<br> Bar.pm<br> Test.pm<br> Grok.pm<br> <br> <br> I'm not sure how to do this? <br> <br> I've been looking through the Perl Cookbook as well as Merlyn's newer Object/References book and if they contain the answers to this, I didn't know it when I saw it. <br> <br> Is my only solution to do one of the following or is there something more elegant? <br> <br> 1) Create an instance of the config and login objects in the main script. Then when I access any other packages or classes from the main script, have the first arguement (after the class/$self) be a reference to $Main::login so that each package could then be accessing the main instance of it? Such as $main::login->{_login}->{session_id}. And if I access a class from another class that itself is accessed from the main scripted (say, main.pl accesses Foo.pm and Foo.pm accesses Bar.pm), I would have Foo.pm pass to Bar.pm a reference to the reference of $Main::login or $Main::config . . .? <br> <br> or... <br> <br> 2) Something to do with prototyping? <br> <br> Needless to say, I'm a bit lost right now. I've spent a few days trying to figure this one out and my little project is at an impasse until I do something (since, obviously, config and login objects are a bit essential!).