Re: [FWP] Self Aware Data routines?

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

>From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>

>> |sub AUTOLOAD { 
>> |  print "Sorry, I don't see a subroutine called '$AUTOLOAD'\n";
>> |}
>>
>> And hope that __DATA__ doesn't contain the name of some unrelated sub
>> in main...
>>
>
> That concern is valid for the general exercise, not just this specific
> solution.  But under this exercise, there are no 'unrelated' subs.  The
> idea is simply to call the specified sub if it exists, and print an
> appropriate message if it doesn't.

(I am definitely a baby perl're :)

But would not using AUTOLOAD, which I had overlooked in my earlier post,
allow one to look at other name spaces and call those subroutines if they
exist?

?
-Sneex-  :]
FCCJ Data Security Group
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