Re: Accessing name of tied variable in tie constructor

No, not without the usual padwalking trickery.

But Tie::StdHash derived have an identity number (documented as argument named this) which you can use to differentiate between tied variables, see example. I guess that's your real intention.

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Re^2: Accessing name of tied variable in tie constructor by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 10, 2013 at 15:04 UTC
Even PadWalker and Devel::Caller can't help you - TIEHASH doesn't get passed a reference to the tied variable, so there's no chance of it being able to figure out the variable's name. Also, the argument `this` in the Tie::StdHash documentation isn't an identity number; it's a blessed hashref. (It's what most OO Perl code would refer to as `$self`.) `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Accessing name of tied variable in tie constructor
by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 10, 2013 at 15:04 UTC

Even PadWalker and Devel::Caller can't help you - TIEHASH doesn't get passed a reference to the tied variable, so there's no chance of it being able to figure out the variable's name.

Also, the argument this in the Tie::StdHash documentation isn't an identity number; it's a blessed hashref. (It's what most OO Perl code would refer to as $self.)

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

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[d/l]
[select]