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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Friday January 07, 2005
11:16 AM

"aliased" on the CPAN

[ #22615 ]

aliased is now on the CPAN. The syntax is cleaned up from what I originally had.

# implicit alias:
use aliased 'Some::Long::Module::Name';

# explicit alias:
use aliased 'Some::Long::Module::Name' => 'Name';

# import lists require using explicit aliasing:
use aliased 'Some::Long::Module::Name'=> 'Name, qw/foo bar baz/;

# and all of the above allow you to call class methods
# on the alias:
my $new_name = Name->new;
my $old_name = Name->search($id); # etc.


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  • Why would I use your module instead of the namespace module? It seems like your module solves a sub-set of the problem solved by the namespace module. I read your docs but they didn't seem to answer the question. Maybe I missed something...

    -sam

    • First, if you just want the last part of the class name, aliased has the simpler syntax:

      use aliased "Really::Long::Class::Name::For::Customer";
      my $cust = Customer->new;

      # versus

      use namespace Customer => "Really::Long::Class::Name::For::Customer";
      my $cust = Customer->new;

      Second, compare the implementations. I am just exporting a single subroutine. namespace jumps through a lot of weird hoops, diddles the aliased @ISA array, and has rather coplicated code. Further, it will die if the target n

      • Yes, I think you should document it, particularly since you mention a good reason that I would use namespace: it works for :: in addition to ->. I find the point about tests to be particularly compelling, personally.

        -sam

        • I was mistaken. namespace also does not allow function calls. In trying this with my test suite, I have this:

          #!/usr/local/bin/perl
          use warnings;
          use strict;
          use lib 't/lib';

          use namespace 'This::Name' => 'Really::Long::Module::Name';

          use Data::Dumper;
          print Dumper( This::Name::new('This::Name') );

          It says that This::Name::new is an undefined subroutine. But, it turns out the problem is worse than that!

          #!/usr/local/bin/perl
          use warnings;
          use strict;
          use lib 't/lib';

          use namespace 'This::Name' => 'Real

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