Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the correction. It looks it was a bug in book.
I am interested only for curiosity. Hope I don't need to work with the symbol
table and typeglobs. :-)
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I did this on my v5.14.2 and got the same result, so I resorted to reading
$ perldoc perlmod
(it's rather long so search for "PACKAGE")
A minor modification has the desired result:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# typeglob-name-package.pl
use v5.10;
my $foo = "Some value";
my $bar = "Another value";
who_am_i(*foo );
who_am_i(*bar );
sub who_am_i {
my $glob = shift;
say "I'm from package " . *{$glob}{PACKAGE};
say "My name is " . *{$glob}{NAME};
}
Octavian - just out interest - are you just doing this from pure curiosity or
is there an interesting use case you can tell us about?:)
Andrew
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Vincent Lequertier <s...@riseup.net> wrote:
Same output here, with perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built
for x86_64-linux-thread-multi.
I'm from package main
My name is glob
I'm from package main
My name is glob
Le 03/05/2015 10:01, Octavian Rasnita a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I've seen the following example in Mastering Perl book, with the comment
> at the end telling what should be the result:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # typeglob-name-package.pl
> use v5.10;
>
> $foo = "Some value";
> $bar = "Another value";
>
> who_am_i( *foo );
> who_am_i( *bar );
>
> sub who_am_i {
> local *glob = shift;
>
> say "I'm from package " . *glob{PACKAGE};
> say "My name is " . *glob{NAME};
> }
>
> Although this probably has limited usefulness, at least outside of any
> debugging, the
> output tells me more about the typeglobs I passed to the function:
>
> I'm from package main
> My name is foo
> I'm from package main
> My name is bar
>
> --- end of text from book ---
>
> I ran the code above with StrawberryPerl 5.20 and ActivePerl 5.16 and
> 5.14 and it gave the following result:
>
> I'm from package main
> My name is glob
> I'm from package main
> My name is glob
>
> So it doesn't print the original name of the typeglob (foo or bar).
> Is the code above working for you as wrote in the book?
>
> --Octavian
>
>
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