The code snippet you posted does not execute for me. 

Undefined subroutine &Calling::package_name called

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It runs if I change Blah::package_name() to Blah->package_name(). The former will look for package_name only in the package you specify. The latter will look for it in the inheritance tree in the way you're talking about.

That being the case, moritz is correct. The package name you're looking for is the first thing in @_. If it's not there, then maybe you want __PACKAGE__.

If there's something I'm missing, please post some working code that shows the problem.

In reply to Re: Identify the package a subroutine is being called from by kyle
in thread Identify the package a subroutine is being called from by Herkum

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