On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:37:31PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > On 6/20/05, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:11 +0200, Juerd wrote: > > > > > I think there exists an even simpler way to avoid any mess involved. > > > Instead of letting AUTOLOAD receive and pass on arguments, and instead > > > of letting AUTOLOAD call the loaded sub, why not have AUTOLOAD do its > > > thing, and then have *perl* call the sub? > > > > Who says AUTOLOAD will always either call a loaded sub or fail? > > Uh, what else can it do? It doesn't have to load a sub to return a > code reference. > > Luke
I recall Damian using AUTOLOAD (in perl5) to evaluate the result of the function call without loading a function with the given name. This was to allow arbitrary names to be invoked, when the same name is unlikely to be used again. This was basically a method that took a string contant argument, but it used the method name as the constant and didn't need to specify a name for the actual ccmmon method. I'm not certain that this is actually a worth supporting, it's more of a golf/obfuscation technique than a significant tool, unless there are additional clever uses of the technique that go beyond this basic trick. --
