Greetings,

I'm looking for a cleaner way to test if a package member exists/is valid.

I'm currently testing it thusly: 
package Util::Stuff::abc;
sub attrib1 { 1  }
sub attrib2 { 10 }
...

eval { $symref->attrib1; };

if (!$@) {
   ... $symref->attrib1 is OK ...
}

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Is there a cleaner way?

Regards
Henry

UPDATE: forgive me if I'm not using the correct Perl nomenclature. I'm an old procedural boy an' all this OO'ism makes me sleepy...

In reply to Testing package membership by FreakyGreenLeaky

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