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in reply to Re (tilly) 3: Generating similar functions in unrelated objects
in thread Why I hate File::Find and how I (hope I) fixed it

You know what happened, don't you? Just as I was leaving the building, not more than five minutes after I asked the question, the answer came to me: symbol table. :-)

The import approach is interesting. It gives me more food for thought, especially in relation to this question I asked about writing your own import. Thanks.