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Re: A general method of locally overriding subroutines

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on Mar 11, 2006 at 04:43 UTC ( [id://535874]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to A general method of locally overriding subroutines

sub localize { my $real = pop; no strict 'refs'; AGAIN: local *{shift@_} = sub { 'changed' }; goto AGAIN if @_; $real->(); }
One of the few places that goto LABEL is useful.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: A general method of locally overriding subroutines
by tmoertel (Chaplain) on Mar 11, 2006 at 05:33 UTC
    Clever. It just needs one more goto to handle the empty case (no overrides) gracefully:
    sub localize { my $real = pop; no strict 'refs'; goto CALL unless @_; AGAIN: local *{shift@_} = sub { 'changed' }; goto AGAIN if @_; CALL: $real->(); }
    Even so, it's easier to understand than the nested-subroutines solution.

    I wonder if anybody out there has got something even simpler.

      Simpler, or did I miss something?

      #! perl -slw use strict; $, = ' '; sub a{ 'a' } sub b{ 'b' } sub c{ 'c' } sub d{ ( a, b, c ) }; sub localize { no strict 'refs'; no warnings 'redefine'; A: local *{ +shift } = sub{ 'changed' }; goto A if @_ > 1; +shift->(); } print d; print localize qw[a b c], \&d; print d; print localize qw[a c], \&d; print d; __END__ C:\test>junk a b c changed changed changed a b c changed b changed a b c

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      Even so, it's easier to understand than the nested-subroutines solution.

      More importantly, the stackdump is more easily understood.

      I wonder if anybody out there has got something even simpler.

      I would hope there's something better than that. For one thing, my version doesn't allow each function to be a closure. Though, that's easy enough to fix, I suppose.

      sub localize { my $real = pop; no strict 'refs'; no warnings 'redefine'; goto CALL unless @_; AGAIN: my $v = shift; local *{$v} = do { my $v2 = $v; sub { "changed $v2" } }; goto AGAIN if @_; CALL: $real->(); }

      My criteria for good software:
      1. Does it work?
      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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