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not stupid (Score:1)

by markjugg (792)

This is a reasonable thing to want to do. What may feel hackish about is that it is not an automatic feature, like Sub::Exporter provides.

But when the module you want to "use" isn't under your control, you have to workaround it somehow. Sub::Exporter does provide a recipe to do this for modules that use Exporter.pm:

http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Sub-Exporter-0.978/lib/Sub/Exporter/Cookbook.pod#Ea ting_Exporter.pm's_Brain [cpan.org]

Mark

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