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

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

Marc Lehmann writes:
> > "Real" autoload would provide a way to get a reference to the
> > autoloaded subroutine without executing it, and would allow a

> > 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.

Yes, this is body => \&get_body in the above example.

> 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.

This is exactly proto => \&get_proto.

Ilya

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References to:

Marc Lehmann <marc@gimp.org>

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