Using the :: notation is not a "use hack" by itself.
This is used, quite properly, to have modules be in catergories, e.g. XML::Parser, IO::Socket, etc.
What I was referring to was taking advantage of this
notation to load a module based on its location, instead
of based on its name. The way to do this task
in a way which does not have cavaets is to modify @INC (e.g. using lib) so you can load the
module in question using its real name.
Even if this approach did work, I find it to be bad style
-- a use line should tell you what module you
are using, it should not be something that needs to be
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I've never looked at the code for XML::Parser for example, is the actual module (package) as follows..?
package XML::Parser;
I looked, it is! Thanks for the heads up. I never considered the separtion of file name space and module hierarchy as separate because i didn't know that the above was a valid package name.
Thanks again
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