Monks,

Is there a way of avoiding the use of no strict 'refs' in the following code fragment. I know symbolic references are ugly, but the alternatives are probably worse. Is this one of those cases where no strict 'refs' is best?

sub AUTOLOAD
{
    use vars qw($AUTOLOAD);
    
    my ($pkg,$method) = ($AUTOLOAD =~ /(.*)::(\w+)$/);
    
    my ($self,@args) = @_;
    
    my $pkgTmplt;
    my $pkgv = $pkg.'::_template';
    {
        no strict 'refs';
        
        $pkgTmplt = $$pkgv{$method};
    }
    
    if ($pkgTmplt)
    {
        my $acc = $self->accessor($method,$pkgTmplt);
        my $chunk = <<END
package $pkg;

sub $method
{
    $acc
}
END
        ;
        
        eval $chunk;
        die "Error making accessor: $@\nCode follows:\n$chunk" if $@;
        wantarray ? ($self->$method(@args)) : $self->$method(@args);
        
    } else
    {
        croak "Unknown sub $method in $pkg ";
    }
}

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In reply to strict refs and package namespaces by rinceWind

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