I had to do this some time back and ended up with this:

package as;

sub import {
    my ($class,$caller) = ($_[1],caller);
    die "Mal-formed package name '$class'" unless $class =~ /^(?:\w|(?
+<!^)(?<!:)::(?!\z))+\z/;
    die "Namespace already exists" if (keys %{"$class\::"});
    *{"$class\::"} = \*{"$caller\::"};
    ($class .= ".pm") =~ s!::!/!g;
    ($caller .= ".pm") =~ s!::!/!g;
    $INC{$class} = exists $INC{$caller} ? $INC{$caller}:$0; 
 
    1;
}

1;

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Update: Pfft, I went the wrong way. You're going to want to alias the main namespace to your target namespace as such:

# here we are in Utils.pm

package main;

use as "Utils";

package Utils;

...

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The reason for this is that you cannot reassign the main:: namespace. This merely makes Utils point to main's namespace and anything declared in Utils is also being declared in main.

In reply to Re: How to alias a whole namespace to another namespace (in this case main::) by !1
in thread How to alias a whole namespace to another namespace (in this case main::) by aufflick

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