Re^5: Am I evil for doing this?

if ( UNIVERSAL::can( $self, $method ) ) {

That too, unfortunately, isn't good either, if an autoloading class properly overloads can. Imho, a class that uses AUTOLOAD also has the obligation to overload can accordingly. If it doesn't that class should be fixed, not mine, if that's an option.

I prefer to do can checks like

if (blessed($self) || ! ref($self) and my $code = $self->can($method))
+ {
    $self->$code(...);
}
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if I need to handle $self's that can't invoke methods.

Update: Forgot to mention &blessed comes from Scalar::Util.

ihb

See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

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Re^6: Am I evil for doing this? by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 11, 2005 at 14:24 UTC
That's an interesting possibility too. I've never run into it yet, but I'm sure it will bite me sooner or later!	[reply]