I'll add some more stuff here soon.

Sometimes you want to write a function that knows which package it has been exported to. For example:

{
  package My::Logger;
  our @EXPORT = qw/log_message/;
  use parent qw/Exporter/;
  sub log_message {
    my ($message) = @_;
    print STDERR "$PACKAGE - $message";
  }
}
{
  package My::Script;
  # if these were separate files, we'd use "use My::Logger"
  My::Logger->import;
  # want this to say "My::Script - Hello"
  log_message("Hello");
}
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This is not that difficult to do. It just requires writing a custom import function which pulls some funny tricks with closures...

{
  package My::Logger;
  sub import {
    my $PACKAGE = caller;
    no strict 'refs';
    *{"$PACKAGE\::log_message"} = sub {
        my ($message) = @_;
        print STDERR "$PACKAGE - $message";
      };
  }
}
{
  package My::Script;
  My::Logger->import;
  log_message("Hello");  
}
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Random additional notes...

• With *{"$PACKAGE\::log_message"} = sub {...} beware that if $PACKAGE uses namespace::autoclean or something similar, the function log_message will get cleaned away. (The same happens with functions exported by Exporter - the behaviour is not only intentional, but kinda the whole point of namespace::autoclean.) If you want to avoid your function getting swept away, then use Sub::Name:

    use Sub::Name qw/subname/;
    do {
      no strict 'refs';
      my $name = "$PACKAGE\::log_message";
      *{$name} = subname $name => sub { ... };
    };
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• My module Object::Role might be useful if you're trying to do this sort of stuff. It's quite low-level, poorly documented, and subject to change.

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