I'm writing an OO perl program and I would like to create a "docstring", which describes the purpose of the method, then in a help method, access the docstring of each respective method

What is the purpose? Who are you providing this help to?

Are you suggesting that for a programmer -- who else would use this information -- to get help on how to use a particular method in their program, they first write another program that calls the help method with the name of the method they actually want to call?

Why would anyone do this rather than just look up the documentation; or -- heavens forfend -- look at the source?

To my eyes, this looks like the most fatuous piece of O'Woe (Order of Worshipful Over Engineers) rubbish I've seen in a long time.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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In reply to Re: Accessing a scalar value in another subroutine? by BrowserUk
in thread Accessing a scalar value in another subroutine? by Anonymous Monk

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