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To alias a namespace, Package::Alias should be sufficient. To remove a namespace, Package::Reaper.

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Re^2: Dynamically Changing Your Namespace
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Mar 30, 2007 at 14:14 UTC
    Argh... another two CPAN one-liner modules: 
    # alias
*{$new_package . '::'} = *{$old_package . '::'};
# remove
undef *{$new_package . '::'};

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      Is there something virtuous about using a lot of code to do something?

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        Not sure where you got that impression. My point was that those two modules were doing things that can be accomplished in plain Perl with a single, simple statement. Therefore using a module for these tasks actually *adds* complexity to your code.
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