Re^7: OOP: ->Coderef for calling Private Methods (possibilites?)

in reply to Re^6: OOP: ->Coderef for calling Private Methods (possibilites?)
in thread OOP: Obj->Coderef for calling Private Methods

> How does Perl know which package the subroutine is in?

It concerns calling by name only. If perl has a reference to code it just executes it. There is no need to determine a package for the call. And the sub itself knows the package it belongs to.

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Re^8: OOP: ->Coderef for calling Private Methods (possibilites?) by LanX (Saint) on Dec 13, 2008 at 20:34 UTC
I think it's clear that I talk about misleadingly short docs. Documentation has to be clear for any user, even without deeper knowledge of perl internals and the need to run experiments! Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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