Re: [ID 20000125.002] Problem in documentation of Fcntl constants

[Marc Lehmann <marc@gimp.org>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:05:32AM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> "Real" autoload would provide a way to get a reference to the
> autoloaded subroutine without executing it, and would allow a

Oh yes ;)

> Given the current preference of no-new-magic-uppercase-names, what about
> 
>   use autoload proto => \&get_proto, body => \&get_body;

modules like the gimp do not know wether a function to autoload exists
before it is being called, so it would be even cooler if there were some kind
of fall-back mechanism who behaved similar to the current AUTOLOAD, except
that it would return a reference.

BTW, it might be even better to have some hook which only _looked_ wether
some function exists, but neither loads it nor executes it. _I_ definitely
would have uses for this kind of hook.

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