NAME Extorter - Import Routines By Any Means Necessary VERSION version 0.03 SYNOPSIS use Extorter qw( *utf8 *strict *warnings feature^say feature^state Carp::croak Carp::confess Data::Dump::dump Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex Digest::SHA1::sha1_base64 Encode::encode_utf8 Encode::decode_utf8 IO::All::io List::AllUtils::distinct List::AllUtils::firstval List::AllUtils::lastval List::AllUtils::pairs List::AllUtils::part List::AllUtils::uniq Memoize::memoize Scalar::Util::blessed Scalar::Util::refaddr Scalar::Util::reftype Scalar::Util::weaken ); DESCRIPTION The Extorter module allows you to create import lists which extract routines from the package(s) specified. It will import routines found in the package variables @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK and %EXPORT_TAGS, or, extract routines defined in the package which are not explicitly exported. Otherwise, as a last resort, Extorter will try to load the package, using a parameterized "use" statement, in the event that the package has a custom or magical importer that does not conform to the Exporter interface. Extorter accepts a list of fully-qualified declarations. Although the Extorter syntax may seem strange (uncommon), it is designed to be useful in a variety of circumstances, as well as promote clean and reasonable import lists. It has the added bonus of extracting functionality from packages which may not have originally been designed to be imported. Declarations are handled in the order in which they're declared, which means, as far as the import and/or extraction order goes, the last routine declared will be the one available to your program and any "redefine" warnings will be suppressed. This is a feature not a bug. NOTE: Any declaration prefixed with an asterisk is assumed to be a fully-qualified namespace of a package and is imported directly. AUTHOR Al Newkirk COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Al Newkirk. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.