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Postings from August 2000
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:02:21 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: >I hate it, it's miserable. Too much hidden trickery and special cases. Quite the countrary, I should think. Have you seen the subs self_or_default and self_or_CGI in the source of CGI.pm? These serve to check if a sub is called as a function or as a method. A dirty hack if you ask me, and buggy, because if you call it as a function with a certain string as a first argument, it will erroniously think it was a class method. >We have ref(), want(), and other calls to find out context, why not >self() to backtrace package context? my $self = self() && shift; Now that is ugly. Or, do you mean: my $class = ref self() || self(); How much overhead would this have over $ME? What advantages would it give? -- Bart.