>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  LW> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:49:04PM -0800, David Storrs wrote:
  LW> : Is there a way to find the name of  &?SUB  ?  It would be useful for
  LW> : error-logging and -reporting.

  LW> $?SUBNAME, I think, unless &?SUB just stringifies to that.  I guess
  LW> it's a good question whether &foo should stringify to "foo" or
  LW> "&foo" or something else including the signature.  In which case,
  LW> &?SUB might stringify to a lot of info, and $?SUBNAME would more
  LW> reliably be just the short name.  Maybe we also need a way to get
  LW> the long name explicitly.

why not leave it as $?SUB but it is an object and you use the .name
method? this way you won't clutter the namespace and you can add more
methods like .signature, .returns, etc.

uri

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