Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: use Very::Long::Module::Name as Foo;

[tilly]

Re-using load was not intentional, I was just looking for a name that made that line read relatively nicely, and I was in a hurry because I was late for work.

As for the shortening approach, putting the package name in a variable works reasonably well. Putting the package name in a constant somewhat works. Both will work with the direct syntax, but not the indirect, my differing judgements on them are that people who don't understand the magic are (at a guess) more likely to accept the syntax error from the variable than from the constant. That is:

my $short = 'Very::Long::Module';
use constant Short => 'Very::Long::Module';

# Later the following work:
$short->new(@args);
Short->new(@args);

# The following do not:
new $short(@args);           # I'm guessing unsurprising?
new Short(@args);            # Possibly puzzling?

It would, I guess, be possible to use source filtering to both set a constant and to rewrite indirect method calls. I wouldn't trust it too much though...