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++, but I'm fairly certian that you want %s there, or even better *s. OTOH, using a * would kill $main::Baz as well as making an alias for the package. (* is better then % because it aliases, rather then coppies, the symbol tables.)

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by broquaint (Abbot) on May 11, 2003 at 22:45 UTC
    but I'm fairly certian that you want %s there, or even better *s
    Assigning with %Foo::Bar::Baz:: will copy the various globs in the symbol table, which should suffice, copying the glob is more efficient and explicitly accessing the glob would do the same job e.g 
    ## copy every glob
%main::Baz::     = %Foo::Bar::Baz::;

## copy the Baz:: glob
$main::{"Baz::"} = $Foo::Bar::{"Baz::"};

## explicitly reference the glob
*main::Baz::     = *Foo::Bar::Baz::

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    They all achieve the same goal (roughly), whereas the first example does a complete copy of the symbol table, the second two just create a reference. So one of the second two would be the desired behaviour in this case.
    HTH

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