note bart You might think of [import]ing the variable into your main package, if it is defined in a module. <p>That's actually do the same thing as [Jenda]'s code snippets, but it looks just a bit less hacky. See [mod://Exporter] for one way to implement it. <p>You could also think of declaring the global variables in a dedicated module and use it in any module that requires access to them. <p>Also note that you can use "<c>::</c>" as short for "<c>main::</c>". So you could just spell it as <c>%::lglobal</c> (and <c>$::lglobal{$key}</c>), which doesn't look to bad to me. You could event think of the "<c>::</c>" prefix as hungarian notation, so it could even work out for the better. 953265 953265