The snippet that bikeNomad posted does work when your module name doesn't have a '::' in it, but I get errors when I try to use a module that isn't a top-level namespace: 
    use autouse 'Net::SSH::Perl' => 'Net::SSH::Perl::new';
    my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new;

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When I run this I get: 
    autouse into different package attempted at a.pl line 4
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at a.pl line 4

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Looking into this a bit more, this is happening because autouse looks for the first occurrence of '::' in the function name, then compares everything before that to the module name you passed in. In my opinion it should be looking for the *last* occurrence of '::'. This is autouse with both 5.005_03 and 5.6.1.

The following patch seems to fix the behavior: 

--- autouse.pm.old    Thu Jun 14 12:08:05 2001
+++ autouse.pm    Thu Jun 14 12:08:11 2001
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
     my $closure_import_func = $func;    # Full name
     my $closure_func = $func;        # Name inside package
-    my $index = index($func, '::');
+    my $index = rindex($func, '::');
     if ($index == -1) {
         $closure_import_func = "${callpkg}::$func";
     } else {

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But I haven't really explored all of the implications of this, as yet. :) Just be aware of this issue if you have the same problem.

Personally, I don't use autouse for OOP (or really at all), because I tend to just require the module before I need to use it.

In reply to Re: use autouse with OOP by btrott
in thread use autouse with OOP by DBX

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