Hi monks,

I thought about writing a module, which allows an easy way to alias perl built-in functions.

For example the bless function an evil monk would not want to use all day, but he might be happy to curse or damn the references.

use Acme::Alias bless => [qw(curse damn)];
my $string = "foo";
my $obj = curse \$string, 'CursedString';
my $obj2 = damn \$string, 'DamnedString';

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My feeling is that that somewhere on CPAN a module with this functionality should exist. However I did not find it. Do you happen to know such a module?

Alternatively one could upload:

package Acme::Alias;

use Filter::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = '0.01';
our %Symbols = ();

sub import()
{
    shift;
    my %all = @_;
    for (keys %all){
        if ( ref($all{$_}) eq 'ARRAY'){
             $Symbols{$_} = join q(|), @{$all{$_}};
        } else {
             $Symbols{$_} = $all{$_}
        }
    }

}

FILTER_ONLY
        code      => sub {
                           while (my ($key,$val) = each %Symbols){
                               s/$val/$key/gs;
                           }

};
1;

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In reply to Aliasing built-in Functions by codeacrobat

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