I want to take the literal source code of the parameter of a function call, and use it as a string at runtime. (...in a similiar fashion to the # operator in the context of a macro definition in the C/C++ preprocessor.)

sub literalize
{
    ????
}

sub assert($)
{
    my ($condition) = @_;

    my $literal_condition_code = literalize(@_);

    if ($condition)
    {
       print "assertion failed: $literal_condition_code\n";
    }
}

assert(42 == 24);

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Output:

assertion failed: 42 == 24

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The C/C++ code would be:

#define assert(condition) { if (!condition) { printf("assertion failed
+: %s\n", #condition); } }

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Anyone know how to do something like this in Perl?

Thanks,
Andrew.

In reply to Literal Source Parameters At Runtime by tomazos

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