Have heard Perl coders whine since a couple of years

• That would be sooo cool if we had relative namespaces

More recently, a colleague wanted something similar "because import in Python can do this"

Once again, this was a matter of JFDI

Load modules with names relative to the current one or from another hierarchy

Return the full names of the loaded modules

Can create aliases like aliased does (Ovid wanted that)

Load a couple of modules

    package BigApp::Report;

    use relative qw(Create Publish);
    # loads BigApp::Report::Create, BigApp::Report::Publish

    use relative qw(..::Utils);
    # loads BigApp::Utils

    use relative -to => "Enterprise::Framework" => qw(Base Factory);
    # loads Enterprise::Framework::Base, Enterprise::Framework::Factory

Using the names returned by import

    use relative;

    my ($Maker, $Publisher) = import relative qw(Create Publish);
    my $report    = $Maker->new;
    my $publisher = $Publisher->new;

    my ($Base, $Factory) 
        = import relative -to => "Enterprise::Framework"
                              => qw(Base Factory);
    my $thing = $Factory->new;

Using aliases, because make-work-code sucks

    use relative -aliased => qw(Create Publish);
    my $report    = Create->new;
    my $publisher = Publish->new;

    use relative -to => "Enterprise::Framework",
                 -aliased => qw(Base Factory);
    my $thing = Factory->new;

In your CPAN mirror

Works on Perl 5.004