[ CCed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:43:24AM -0700 Rob Richardson wrote:
> Interesting! Not that I can understand much of it... > > But I'm particularly interested in the caller stack. Is that standard > Perl or do I have to have a special module? caller() is a Perl-builtin. See 'perldoc -f caller'. In a nutshell: It can be used to figure out by whom a function (or a module included with require()) was called. For instance, a function can find out its own name programatically: sub test1 { test2(); } sub test2 { print "My name is ", (caller(0))[3], " and I was called by ", (caller(1))[3], "\n"; } test1(); __END__ My name is main::test2 and I was called by main::test1 These are usually pretty exotic information but if you want to write your own debugger, you'll have use for it. Tassilo -- $_=q#",}])!JAPH!qq(tsuJ[{@"tnirp}3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$-3(rellac(=_$({ pam{rekcahbus})(rekcah{lrePbus})(lreP{rehtonabus})!JAPH!qq(rehtona{tsuJbus#; $_=reverse,s+(?<=sub).+q#q!'"qq.\t$&."'!#+sexisexiixesixeseg;y~\n~~dddd;eval -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]