At the risk of breaking ranks here, I will attempt to help actually answer your question ...

*grin*

Does anyone know how to reliably extract the name of the calling method, so that I can ommit that from the calls to the NEXT method?
While I understand your hesitancy with AUTOLOAD, it would remove this entire problem.

Perhaps we're not talking about the same "problem."

The built-in syntax for an empty wrapper is: 

  sub compile { (shift)->SUPER::compile(@_) }

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The syntax I'm currently using is: 

  sub compile { (shift)->NEXT('compile', @_) }

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What I'm hoping for is to omit the method name and have it picked up from context: 

  sub compile { (shift)->NEXT(@_) }

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All of the AUTOLOADed solutions seem like they'll still require the current method name to be specified: 

  sub compile { (shift)->SUPER::DISPATCH::compile(@_) }

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Admittedly, it's a minor point, but if you're going to have a rule that says that you can't redispatch to a different method name, it seems gauche to make the caller write out the method name again.

In reply to Re^2: Solving the SUPER problem in Mixins with a Dispatch Method by simonm
in thread Solving the SUPER problem in Mixins with a Dispatch Method by simonm

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