it is useful to know the action being executed

Useful to whom? Cos code doesn't give a toss what it is called; or even if its caller has a name.

If you are writing subroutines that do different things dependant upon where they are called from, you've completely missed the point of OO, encapsulation and even structured programming.

You are violating the first principle of reusable encapsulation--Loose coupling--by building in tight dependency by design. In other words, you've re-invented spaghetti code.

This current fad for runtime introspection is the single biggest backward step in programming in the last 30 years.

"Modern Perl" be damned. It is nought more than another attempt to introduce programming by rote. But like painting by numbers, it is never going to produce works of art; nor even practical craft.

It's the new "New Math". And history shows what happened to that.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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In reply to Re^5: Moose and caller() for current method by BrowserUk
in thread Moose and caller() for current method by ait

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