Re: How can I re-program the exists function?

I think the closest you could get would be to create your my_exists function taking a separate hashref and string as you already have, then use something like Devel::Declare or Devel::CallParser (perhaps coupled with PPI) to hook into the Perl compiler and translate this:

my_exists($hash{key})
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to this during the parse/compile stage:

my_exists(\%{hash}, 'key')
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It's not an easy task though.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: How can I re-program the exists function? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 24, 2012 at 16:25 UTC
t's not an easy task though. See Method::Signatures , it looks easy enough to copy that :)	[reply]
Re^2: How can I re-program the exists function? by greengaroo (Hermit) on Aug 27, 2012 at 15:40 UTC
Thanks, but I don't think it's worth it. It is not that important since I managed to make it work. There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots. -- greengaroo	[reply]