in reply to Making Coro::Socket Override IO::Socket::INET

You can probably acheive this by altering the symbol table:
package Bar; sub import { print "Hi!\n"; } package main; use warnings; use strict; BEGIN{*{Foo::} = *{Bar::};} # can't "use" there because there is no Foo.pm Foo::->import; __END__ Hi!

Write a header in your script that once uses Coro::Socket and then replaces IO::Socket::INET:: namespace with Coro::Socket::. Subsequent uses of IO::Socket::INET will call import() from Coro::Socket and will use its subroutines.

Edit: you'll probably need to use IO::Socket::INET before replacing namespaces, too, so further calls to it won't eval it and overwrite Coro::Socket's subs back.