>>>>> "DW" == David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DW> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 05:30 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Sure. But the right solution is to permanently eliminate the >> sesquipedalian >> name (so you don't have to retype it for every single typed variable): >> >> class Date is Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh; DW> Oh, that's nice. As long as one is careful about not creating DW> conflicting class names... but you should always know the classes you are using in a file. and i expect that is a lexical map/transform which shouldn't affect the symbol table. so only in this file/scope would Date be an alias to that long class name. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org