2. Manual Importing and Exporting

• Suppose you want to use a module that exports a function

• But the function has the wrong name

        use LWP::Simple;      # exports 'get' function

        sub get { ... }       # which is globbered by this 'get'

        my $html = get(...);  # oops, wrong 'get()'

• You can still call LWP::Simple::get if you like

        my $html = LWP::Simple::get(...);

• But this will save typing:

        use LWP::Simple ();   # exports nothing
        BEGIN { *webget = \&LWP::Simple::get }

        sub get { ... }

        my $html = webget(...);

• Here webget actually calls LWP::Simple::get

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