in reply to An Implementation of Devel::TraceMethods

Funky stuff! My only suggestion would be to let the developer set his/her own callback, in case the default output isn't what's wanted (notably tracing to something other than STDERR). update: oh duh! which is exactly what you said in the comments.. Something like:

use Carp qw/croak/; BEGIN { my $logger; sub callback { my $coderef = shift; croak "$coderef is not a code reference, cannot use as a callb +ack.\n" unless ref($coderef) eq 'CODE'; $logger = $coderef; } callback( sub { print STDERR "Executing $_[0]!\n" } ); sub logCall { &$logger( @_ ); } }

This gives the following output (if the example script is changed as follows):

Test::foo(); Devel::TraceMethods::callback( sub { print STDERR "called $_[0].\n" } +); Test::bar(); Test::blah(); __END__ gives: Executing foo! called bar. called AUTOLOAD. Can works!

You would not believe how much I needed this code a couple of months ago....


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