NAME
Package::Alias - alias one namespace into another
SYNOPSIS
use Package::Alias
main => 'Foo::Bar',
Package::Name::Simply::Too::Long::To::Use => 'Pkg';DESCRIPTION
This module aliases one package name to another. After running the SYNOPSIS code, @INC and @Foo::Bar::INC reference the same memory. $Package::Name::Simply::Too::Long::To::Use::var and $Pkg::var do as well.
Chip Salzenberg says that it's not technically feasible to perform runtime namespace aliasing. At compile time, Perl grabs pointers to functions and global vars. Those pointers aren't updated if we alias the namespace at runtime. It may be possible to do this with some work with XS.
AUTHOR
Joshua Keroes <skunkworks@eli.net>
BUGS
alias() should return success or failure but I don't know what to check. Help?