Forced Importing / Aliasing

• Another real example: Module has a function you want, but the name is wrong:

        use Module 'function';

• Perhaps this is no good because it overlaps some other function that you need

• For example:

        sub get { ... }       # Clobbered by LWP::Simple::get
        use LWP::Simple;      # Ouch --- exports `get' by default

• Do this instead:

        use LWP::Simple ();   # Load, but don't import anything
        BEGIN { *webget = \&LWP::Simple::get }

• use Module () is a weird special case

• It loads Module but does not call import at all

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