Ah, the joys of OO programming :)

Detecting a non-existant method depends upon what you're trying to do. If you mean, "how do I detect this at compile time", you're pretty much out of luck. Methods aren't bound to objects until run-time since, due to polymorphism, Perl has no way of knowing what sort of object you have, thus it can't know at compile time what method is going to be called.

Thus, you must rely on this method call being trapped at run-time. One way is to simply let Perl try and call the method and have it die. Then, you can read the useful method on the command line and take appropriate action :). If you don't want it to die, you'll have to create an AUTOLOAD method to trap the call and do as you will. One thing you could do is use String::Approx, walk the symbol table and dump a list of method names that prant might be.

Barring this, you'll just have to watch your typing and use strict.

Cheers,
Ovid

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