Sometimes you use a module and you don't want everything it exports. Or perhaps it exports nothing.
use from 'Some::Module' => qw/func1 func2/;
# or
use from 'Some::Module' =>
func1 => { as => 'munge' }, # alias to avoid conflicts
'func2';
As a concrete example (this allows me to reimplement the other functions it exports by default):
use from 'Test::Exception' => 'throws_ok';
Stupid?
not stupid
markjugg on 2008-04-17T13:59:38
This is a reasonable thing to want to do. What may feel hackish about is that it is not an automatic feature, like Sub::Exporter provides.
But when the module you want to "use" isn't under your control, you have to workaround it somehow. Sub::Exporter does provide a recipe to do this for modules that use Exporter.pm:
http://search.cpan.org/user/rjbs/Sub-Exporter-0.978/lib/Sub/Exporter/Cookbook.pod#Ea ting_Exporter.pm's_Brain
Mark
