in reply to Constant name stored in a string
Now, it's fairly easy to test if there's a subroutine defined given a name, and it's also fairly easy to see whether it has an empty prototype. But not every function with an empty prototype is a constant.
So, you may have to resort to introspection tools like Devel::Peek. It's Dump function can tell whether a subroutine is a constant - look for the CONST flag. Dump writes to STDERR, so if you want to do this from within your program, you may want to redirect STDERR and capture it yourself.
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Re^2: Constant name stored in a string
by WizardOfUz (Friar) on Jan 28, 2010 at 16:54 UTC |