On 20/11/2017 15:22, webmast...@ctosonline.org wrote:
Yes, that will work, but note that you do still continue to skip constants, which are callable as methods. I don’t know whether that matters to you.
I think it doesn't matter much and it's OK to stick to the current behavior for now.
It seems that constants are initially stored as refs in a stash (for example as scalarrefs, arrayrefs, refs-to-refs), but if they're evaluated using method syntax for the first time, they get converted to globs. So we treat constants inconsistently which is a bug, although a really minor one.
If there is a way to detect constants reliably, maybe via %constant::declared, we could make sure that they are ignored or throw an error if a constant shadows a method name. OTOH, constants can be called with method syntax, so we could also allow them as methods.
Nick
