On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 14:27 US/Pacific, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:23 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
Is it possible to create self aware functions (possibly using a magic variable)? I.e. functions that know their own name. Sort of the oppossite of bless.
You're looking for ref(), but first let me give you the "This is often a bad idea" warning. What are you trying to use the object's name for?
yes and no actually. { most of the time I TOTALLY agree with you on this point, so, well, uh... there is a time when it is useful }
He may also want to deal with say
perldoc -f caller
since sometimes it is nice to have things like
we were in main, Foo::Bar::me_called, 14
the demonstration code is up at: <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/PR/blog2/Code/200311.html#id3152014937>
ciao drieux
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