because it has an object oriented interface. IOW it's a class not a simple procedural module.

(update: see Perl_module#Object-oriented_example )

> Can I alias some "x" to Time::Piece->strptime?

Aliasing a method can only be done by another method ..

(I don't get the point?!)

but you are free to do

sub x {  Time::Piece->strptime(@_) }
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be aware that the returned value is still an object.

Yeah, I wanted to alias the method call to a symbol within my program so I didn't have to type that much. So if the original is Time::Piece->strptime ... I wanted it to become: x->strptime. But on second thought, I of course could have created an object for Time::Piece and called strptime on the object. Didn't occur to me at the time I was writing it. I thought strptime was a CLASS method. All is good, thank you for making me think!

First off, the confusion later down the road by using my code below isn't remotely close to being worth saving a few keystrokes, but to answer your question, you can use a typeglob, and wrap the call within an anonymous sub. Note how I pass in the parameters (@_) through the anonysub and directly into the original call:

use warnings;
use strict;

use Time::Piece;

*st = sub { Time::Piece->strptime(@_) };

st("Sunday 3rd Nov, 1943", "%A %drd %b, %Y",);
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Ahhh... Cool!! Thank you for such a quick response.