Re: Re: Symbol table globbing from object refs

This should give you a list of all functions available to a given object
I think some Autoloaded functions (such as accessors) may be missed, unless they have been used before. I played with this idea from Conway's book Object Oriented Perl, p91, pp114-7 a few years ago.

However, a user-centered design should document the public ones, and make their names available through some mechanism. What that mechanism should be, I'm not certain. I only raise the point to ask if this hole has a cover.

Update: I meant to ask "What is the convention for objects to communicate their method names to the outside world, given that Autoload may be employed?"

Update 2: Page numbers added.

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Re: Re: Re: Symbol table globbing from object refs by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 29, 2003 at 22:36 UTC
I think some Autoloaded functions (such as accessors) may be missed Indeed, since an `AUTOLOAD`ed subroutine can be almost anything they're more or less impossible to test for. But this is also basically the same situation for any run-time generated subroutines, so any attempts at getting all available methods naively can only be so effective. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Symbol table globbing from object refs by ysth (Canon) on Nov 30, 2003 at 02:05 UTC
Ideally all AUTOLOADable methods will be declared: `sub mymethod1; sub mymethod2; ...` [download] In practice, its not always done.	[reply] [d/l]