in reply to Re^2: Distinguish method/function call during debugger?
in thread Distinguish method/function call during debugger?

My point was that Perl has so many call syntaxes that I doubt it knows how a function was called.

By the way, I'm suprised you don't use it. In just about every inheriting class I write, I use $class->SUPER::new().

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Re^4: Distinguish method/function call during debugger?
by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 23, 2006 at 17:21 UTC

    Oh. You're wrong then. The information is clearly there.

    ~$ perl -MO=Concise -e '$o->foo'
      entersub
         pushmark
         ex-rv2sv
            gvsv[*o] s
         method_named[PVIV "foo"]
~$ perl -MO=Concise -e 'foo( $o )'
      entersub
         ex-list
            pushmark
            ex-rv2sv
               gvsv[*o]
            ex-rv2cv
               gv[*foo]

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      You only showed that Perl knows how it should call a function, not that the it knows how a function was called. Perl obviously has to know how to call a function (since one checks @ISA and the other doesn't), but that doesn't mean it keeps track of how a function was called. Despite your claim, you haven't shown me wrong (yet).

      Update: I was unhappy with my original wording. I rephrased what I wrote to make more sense.

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