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On 13 December 2010 17:09, Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2010, at 5:05 PM, demerphq wrote: >> On 13 December 2010 13:59, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote: >>> demerphq wrote: >>>> This is why i proposed using a $^THIS_SUB "magic tied var" for the purpose. >>> >>> A variable is a poor model for this. I think it's best accessed via >>> something that looks like a function call. __SUB__ would be fine, >>> except for the convention of __FOO__ denoting a compile-time constant. >> >> Yes. But I think people can deal with that, it isnt much different >> from __PACKAGE__. > > Please note that __PACKAGE__ and __LINE__ are settable nonetheless, using #line and -package- . Yes I did consider that. But in both cases you dont modify __PACKAGE__ directly, but instead via some other mechanism. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next