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Superfox il Volpone has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there,
Is there a way to alias or obtain a shortcut to refer to a package ?

for instance: 
use common::system::utilities::Logger;

Logger::print("stuff");

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or, a la c++: 
namespace Logger = common::system::utilities::Logger;

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Thanks in advance

Kind regards,
s.fox

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Re: Aliasing a package
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 25, 2014 at 10:11 UTC

    Usually you create an object 

    my $logger = common::system::utilities::Logger->new;
$logger->print( ... );

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    or a subroutine  sub LOG { &common::system::utilities::Logger::print }

    but you can do "aliases" with Package::Alias  use Package::Alias Logger => 'common::system::utilities::Logger' ;

    or do it yourself 

     BEGIN{
use common::system::utilities::Logger;
*Logger:: = *common::system::utilities::Logger::;
}

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