Dear Monks,

even though I cannot imagine this has never been asked before and I am almost sure it isn't possible what I am trying to do, I thought I might as well ask the question. If the answer's a no then at least I'll be able to sleep easy knowing that it wasn't my failing :-)

Imagine a situation where a scalar var, let's call it $coderef, gets assigned a reference to a named subroutine, which for the sake of tradition I shall call &foo. Is there any way whatsoever, at runtime, to get perl to cough up the name of the subroutine a coderef is pointing to? In other words, a way of making perl return the value &foo as the subroutine $coderef points to, as opposed to CODE(memory_address)? And, assuming this is even possible, what would be the result if the subroutine is anonymous?

A great many thanks in advance once again.

Update for clarity with a code example: 

package thingy;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub new
  {
  my($class, $name, $coderef, @args) = @_;
  #insert checking for proper values here, removed for readability's s
+ake
  my $self = {};
  bless($class, $self);
  $self->{'Coderef'} = $coderef;
  $self->{'Args'} = \@args;
  return $self;
  }

sub execute
  {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'Coderef'}(@{$self->{'Args'}});
  }

sub details
  {
  my $self = shift;
  print "executes coderef *insert black magic here* with arguments " .
+ join(' ', @{$self->{'Args'}}) . "\n";
  }

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