Re: perl equivalent to ruby's alias

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Re^2: perl equivalent to ruby's alias by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Sep 26, 2008 at 03:22 UTC
I think Attribute::Alias might work better. `sub foo :Alias(bar) { ... } # These both do the same thing. foo(); bar();` [download] My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perl equivalent to ruby's alias by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Sep 28, 2008 at 18:59 UTC
Does this really do what the poster wants? My impression was that Data::Alias is designed more to handle magic aliasing of scalars (possibly references), such as occurs in `for`s and subroutines, than to handle non-scalars such as subroutines. Of course, you can use `alias old_func = \&new_func,` [download] but I don't see what that gains over just `old_func = \&new_func.` [download] I searched the Data::Alias documentation for 'code' and 'function', but couldn't find anything indicating what I might be missing.	[reply] [d/l] [select]