[Mpls-pm] Dumb Question...Module Method - Dual Name

[Ian Malpass]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> AUTOLOAD also breaks calls to ->can(), unless you overload that as well.

Or do forward declaration of the subs you're going to want to AUTOLOAD 
(according to the UNIVERSAL and perlsub documentation, which I have just 
read).

Thus,

     package Example;

     sub Foo;

then

      $eg->can( 'Foo' );

will return true (well, a reference to &Foo, which would then fall through 
to the AUTOLOADer).

Of course, that means you have to declare any subs you want to work with 
can(), but I don't like having open-ended AUTOLOADers anyway, so I usually 
know the list of methods it's going to work on.

> Frankly, I think AUTOLOAD is bad, bad, bad, and I question it's use at
> all.

I *did* say it was a snare for the unwary ;)

But yes, Class::MethodMaker is also groovy (if a little over-engineered, 
perhaps) and your closure code is likewise groovy.

Ian

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