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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> [Quoting Eric Brine, on December 13 2010, 02:51, in "Re: [perl #80628] [P"]
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > > More important is whether it is a keyword, or a compile time constant
> > > like __FILE__ and __LINE__.
> > >
> > > -- Johan
> > >
> >
> > As proposed, it's not constant.
>
> Then please do not call it __SUB__.
>
> What would be the difference with (caller(0))[3] ?
>
caller[3] doesn't work for anon subs.
> perl -E"sub { say( (caller(0))[3] ) }->()"
main::__ANON__
It was specifically proposed that __SUB__ would return a reference in at
least that case.
It's more like SUPER than __FILE__ in a sense. Maybe something without
dashes would be more appropriate.
- Eric
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