G'day mavericknik,

You can be very selective about what you import. See Exporter: Specialised Import Lists for full details. Here's a quick example:

$ perl -E 'use Data::Dump; my $x = {qw{a 1 b 2}}; dd $x'
{ a => 1, b => 2 }
$ perl -E 'use Data::Dump qw{!dd}; my $x = {qw{a 1 b 2}}; dd $x'
Can't call method "dd" on unblessed reference at -e line 1.
$
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