Foo Ji-Haw <> wrote:
> Hey William,
>
> Ok, I've dug around, and I've got a working solution to my problem.
> It's a bit ugly though:
>
> package BaseClass;
> ...
> sub doThis
> {
> my $pFunc;
> eval '$pFunc = \&'.ref($this).'::doThat';
> return threads->new($pFunc,$this);
> }
>
> package DerivedClass;
> ...
> sub doThat
> {
> ...
> }
>
> Essentially, the 3 lines of code does the following:
> 1. ref($this) returns the class name
> 2. eval is needed to get the pointer to the instance's overloaded
> class subroutine, and store it in $pFunc 3. use $pFunc directly as a
> parameter in new()
>
> My question is: is there a cleaner way to do this: ie without the use
> of eval?
Yes, see UNIVERSAL::can.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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