package Foo; use strict; use warnings; use warnings::register; sub foo { print "Foo!\n" }; sub import { my $cur = shift; my $dest = caller; for my $g (grep $cur->can($_), @_) { warnings::warnif("sub '$g' already exists in $dest") and next if $dest->can($g); my($dest, $src) = map qualify_to_ref("$_\::$g"), $dest, $cur; *$dest = *$src; } } # This is what we need from Symbol to provide the qualify_to_ref function my %global = map {$_ => 1} qw(ARGV ARGVOUT ENV INC SIG STDERR STDIN STDOUT); sub qualify ($;$) { my ($name) = @_; if (!ref($name) && index($name, '::') == -1 && index($name, "'") == -1) { my $pkg; # Global names: special character, "^x", or other. if ($name =~ /^([^a-z])|(\^[a-z])$/i || $global{$name}) { $pkg = "main"; } else { $pkg = (@_ > 1) ? $_[1] : caller; } $name = $pkg . "::" . $name; } $name; } sub qualify_to_ref ($;$) { return \*{ qualify $_[0], @_ > 1 ? $_[1] : caller }; } 1; __DATA__ Can't use string ("main::foo") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at c:/Foo.pm line 39. # test script #/usr/bin/perl use lib '/blah'; use Foo 'foo'; foo();