I agree that iterating on @$chain isn't very clean code, because $chain is a global variable. You can of course make a copy of the array @$chain in the __Call_MethodChain__ function. The change is not difficult, the new sub is this: 

sub __Call_MethodChain__ {
        my $r = $_[0];
        my @chain = @$chain;
        for my $pair (@chain) {
                my($method, $args) = @$pair{"method", "args"};
                $r = $r->$method(@$args);
        }
        $r;
}

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Your point with the while loop is especially valid, because my code doesn't propagate context for a method chain call. The simplest version (the one with blessed subs) doesn't have this bug. The simplest way to fix this is a looped shift like this: 

sub __Call_MethodChain__ {
        my $r = $_[0];
        my @chain = @$chain;
        for (;;) {
                my $pair = shift @chain;
                my($method, $args) = @$pair{"method", "args"};
                0 == @chain and
                        return $r->$method(@$args);
                $r = $r->$method(@$args) ;
        }
}

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You are right, the straightforward solution can even handle dynamic building of method chains well, and it also doesn't have the bug I've mentioned above. I can still also say that this was just an experiment I made with perl (or even just some filthy trick to get some noderep).

In reply to Re^4: Method chain object with easy syntax by ambrus
in thread Method chain object with easy syntax by ambrus

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