[Chicago-talk] Asking an class for its method list

[Steven Lembark]

-- Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com>

> Well, I was going to use it because I have one module (client) which the
> caller requests methods like:
>
> reqMktData
> placeOrder
> cancelOrder
>
> this module then calls a liked named function on my poe server.  I figured
> instead of writing a specific function in this module for each function on
> the poe server.   I would just dynamically check it that function exists,
> and handle all the calls with AUTOLOADER.  Unfortunately, the module::info
> takes too long so instead I just have a list of functions available and
> still use AUTOLOADER to call them


    my $othermodule = 'What::Ever';

    sub AUTOLOADER
    {
        my $name = ...


        if( my $sub = $othermodule->can( $name ) )
        {
            # call it or install it.
        }
    }

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