Because if I have 'tinytext' in the list, then the type returned is { type => 'tinytext' }, and that's invalid. I need both TEXT() and TINYTEXT() to return a type of 'text', but the error message needs to report the actual subroutine called. If this were a one-off, I wouldn't care. However, I need multiple aliases which return identical types but whose error message needs to return which alias was called.

Update: I know it's easy to modify the generator to do this and that's what I'll do (a hash mapping instead of a list). It just bugs me that if an anonymous sub is assigned to a CODE slot in a type glob and I call the actual sub, I can't figure out which one it is.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re^2: What CODE typeglob slot is my anonymous sub in? by Ovid
in thread What CODE typeglob slot is my anonymous sub in? by Ovid

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