I'm a little curious about your constraints...

  1. The result must be a reference to the object which called the sub.
  2. The reference to the calling object must be obtained on the fly (no saving it anyplace first to be retrieved later).
  3. No changes may be made to the calling object (say, to have it pass $self to the receiving object).

While they have provided some interesting (if somewhat baroque :-) solutions, I'd love to know what causes them in your particular instance?

For example, why can't you use Hook::LexWrap to temporarily override the method in question to stash the object somewhere for your later use (which would violate constraint (2) and (3)?

Just curious :-)

In reply to Re: How can I find the calling object? by adrianh
in thread How can I find the calling object? by strider corinth

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