Yes its seems common for Perl libraries in commercial environments to get very long and come a right PITA ;-( However check out the excellent "aliased" module.

Yes its seems common for Perl libraries in commercial environments to get very long and come a right PITA ;-( However check out the excellent "aliased" module... http://search.cpan.org/dist/aliased/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/aliased/ From its POD... use aliased 'My::Company::Namespace::Customer'; my $cust = Customer->new; use aliased 'My::Company::Namespace::Preferred::Customer' => 'Preferred'; my $pref = Preferred->new;