That's a shame, since you can get the right results with XS function aliases: 
#include "EXTERN.h"
#include "perl.h"
#include "XSUB.h"

#include "ppport.h"

#define SI_NOT  0x01
#define SI_REV  0x02


MODULE = String::Index          PACKAGE = String::Index


int
cindex(SV *str, SV *cc, ...)
PROTOTYPE: $$;$
ALIAS:
  ncindex = 1
  crindex = 2
  ncrindex = 3
CODE:
{
  /* you use the 'ix' variable in here to
     determine which alias of the function
     was called.  ix = 0 means 'cindex',
     1 means ncindex, and so on */
}

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I suppose then you could get a similar effect in Perl like so: 
sub sub_alias (\&;$) {
  my ($func, $ix) = (@_, 0);
  sub { $func->($ix, @_) };  # that's sub { ... }'s @_, not sub_alias'
+s @_
}

*foo = sub_alias &bar, 1;
*blat = sub_alias &bar, 2;
*gunk = sub_alias &bar, 3;

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The only catch here is that when you call bar(), there won't be that extra argument at the beginning. You can be sneaky, therefore, and do something like this: 
sub SubAliasIndex::new { my ($class, $ix) = @_; bless \$ix, $class; }
sub SubAliasIndex::ix { ${ $_[0] } }

sub sub_alias (\&;$) {
  my ($func, $ix) = (@_, 0);
  sub { $func->(SubAliasIndex->new($ix), @_) };
}

sub bar {
  my $ix = (@_ and UNIVERSAL::isa($_[0], 'SubAliasIndex')) ? shift->ix
+ : 0;
  # ...
}

*foo = sub_alias &bar, 1;
*blat = sub_alias &bar, 2;
*gunk = sub_alias &bar, 3;

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It feels like overkill to me. ;)
Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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In reply to Re: How to get the name of an aliased function by japhy
in thread How to get the name of an aliased function by DrWhy

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