Hi all, I'm about to release "Aliased" to the CPAN. Yeah, it's a root level name, but it will soon become clear why it needs to be short.
SYNOPSIS: use Aliased 'Really::Long::Module::Name'; use Aliased 'Really::Long::Conflicting::Module::Name' as "MName"; use Aliased 'Another::Silly::Example' import => [qw/foo bar baz/]; # my $name = Really::Long::Module::Name->new; my $name = Name->new; # my $mname = Really::Long::Conflicting::Module::Name->new my $mname = MName->new; # my $wibble = Another::Silly::Example->constructor. my $wibble = Example->constructor; Basically, when you have long package names, it can be cumbersome to retype the package name all the time. This module allows you to skip that if the subroutines are called as methods. It exports a subroutine into your namespace that is the desired alias for the module. Having used something similar in a large system, I found that having this feature became quite addictive. Since this affects compile-time behavior, it seemed more appropriate to think of this as a pragma and have "use aliased" but I know that some frown on that (of course, Ingy released "only" and I didn't hear any complaints.) Is "Aliased" a good name? Is "aliased" better? Am I overlooking anything? Cheers, Ovid ===== Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/decency.html Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
