Re: Re: Re: perspective and object-disorientation

But caller doesn't do what you want. Try:

sub respond_to_message_from { 
  my $self = shift;
  my($message, $sender);
  
  my $attitude = $self->appropriate_attitude_to($sender);
  $attitude->respond_to_message_from($self, 
                                     $message, 
                                     $sender);
}

This avoids monkeying with @ISA, which can only be a good thing. $attitude is an example of the Strategy Pattern. Note that I've not got an @args parameter to this function, instead I'd expect them to be wrapped up in teh $message object (which can be thought of as an example of the Argument Object pattern.

[Ctrl-z]

ah!

I realised the insufficiency of using caller() in that way - but your example is still great. Having the  $self->appropriate_attitude_to($sender) return an object is really...neat.

Thanks, I'll play around with this