[Kc] thinking about interpolation of accessors

[Sterling Hanenkamp]

I have been known to use this:

"the blurf field is @{[$self->blurf]}\n"

It's ugly and wouldn't be something I use in production, but it does the
job when I'm in hurry.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:42 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> A common Perl newbie error is to try to use an object accessor method in
> an interpolative context and expect to get the value, like so
>
>      DEBUG and print "the blurf field is $self->blurf\n";
>
> which (of course) doesn't work, because blurf is a method call, not a
> syncactic container access like $self->{blurf}.
>
> An extension to Perl that would allow that to work would have to hook back
> into the interpolation process.
>
> Anyone for tinkering under perl's hood towards defining a package attribute
> that would indicate that method syntax interpolates?
>
>
>
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