Is there a way to somehow assign to $self from inside a method so that I could recreate the object I'm using from scratch? Seems unlikely, but I'm currently looking into WWW::Automate guts (yeah, I'm still sick with automatic acceptance testing for my webapps) and see this: 
sub pop_page_stack {
    my $self = shift;
    if (@{$self->{page_stack}}) {
        $self = pop @{$self->{page_stack}};
        bless $self;
    }
    return 1;
}

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This method is intended to be used as: $agent->pop_page_stack; to simulate the "Go back" button in my browser. From my attempts at actually using WWW::Automate, I can say that this method fails. Looks like I found a bug, but how can the intended interface be implemented at all?

I'm now using my own workaround which (above all) changes the interface to $agent = $agent->pop_page_stack;.

In reply to Recreating an object from its own method by kappa

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