Funny you put your example in the load namespace ;-). Or was that intentional?

I guess we agree to disagree. I find the syntax of 

Very::Long::Module->load::as my $short => qw(foo bar baz);

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very confusing. And a strange, roundabout way of setting $short.

...without trampling on any potential global namespace...

I think you touch on a very important flaw of my "as.pm" and of Package::Alias' approach as well. Consider a program which has: 

use Foo;
use Bar;

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Now, Foo.pm has the following shortening (using my syntax for ease of reading): 
package Foo;
use Very::Long::Module::Name as Shorty;

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and Bar.pm has the following shortening: 
package Bar;
use Some::Other::Long::Module::Name as Shorty;

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Then you see we have a problem. One of the two modules will be referring to the wrong long module name, depending on whether an existing stash would be overwritten or not. In other words: you can only have one Shorty. That's because the stash aliasing (or the @ISA assignment) is not limited to the package scope from which it is invoked. And I don't see a way to encapsulate it, as all of the object creation is at run-time.

In my view, this pulls the rug from under any shortening approach currently available. As you cannot create code that can be well-behaved in that respect.

Too bad. It was a nice idea while it lasted... ;-)

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: use Very::Long::Module::Name as Foo; by liz
in thread use Very::Long::Module::Name as Foo; by liz

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