SymbolTable - An easy interface to symbol tables ( no eval() and no typeglobs )

You can use SymbolTable to export subroutines, convert someone else's 
package variable into a constant, change your own subroutines, and hack
and slash at perl's symbol table without a single call to eval and without
using a single typeglob.


	# print a representation of all package names current used.
  	use SymbolTable;

  	my $st = SymbolTable->New('PACKAGE', 'main');

	sub ShowPackages
	{
		my ($symbol_table, $indent)=@_;
	
		while( my($subpkgname, $subpkgsymtab)= each(%$symbol_table))
			{
			print $indent.$subpkgname."\n";
			ShowPackages($subpkgsymtab, $indent."\t");
			}
	}

	ShowPackages($st, "\t");

When I ran the above example, it printed out the text below. Note that
package Data::Dumper translates into a package 'Data' containing a package 
'Dumper'. Here's my output:

	attributes
	DB
	Data
		Dumper
	overload
	UNIVERSAL
	DynaLoader
	Exporter
		Heavy
	warnings
	IO
		Handle
	strict
	Carp
		Heavy
	XSLoader
	mypackage
		subpackage
			belowpackage
	SymbolTable
		Tie


Have fun.

Copyright (c) 2002, Greg London. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
  (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)