Re^5: How can I call a Perl sub with an object from a sub name stored in a var?

[tobyink]

As I said, the string overload is used.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

BEGIN {
    package Local::Farm;
    sub new {
        my ( $class ) = ( shift );
        bless {}, $class;
    }
    sub cow_say {
        say "Moo";
    }
    sub sheep_say {
        say "Baa";
    }
    sub horse_say {
        say "Neigh";
    }
};

BEGIN {
    package Local::Random::String;
    use overload q[""] => 'to_string', fallback => 1;
    sub new {
        my ( $class, @options ) = ( shift, @_ );
        bless \@options, $class;
    }
    sub to_string {
        my ( $self ) = ( shift );
        my $ix = rand @$self;
        $self->[$ix];
    }
};

my $object = 'Local::Farm'->new();
my $method = 'Local::Random::String'->new( qw/ cow_say sheep_say / );

$object->$method for 1 .. 10;

[LanX]

Thanks for the code! :)

OK now I understand what you intended to say, but IMHO you are over-complicating things.

The rule is

• If $method is not a coderef, its string-value is used for a method lookup!

> As I said, the string overload is used.

No, if you bless a coderef, it'll still ignore the string-value. No matter if it was overloaded or not.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';


BEGIN {
    package Local::Farm;
    sub new {
        my ( $class ) = ( shift );
        bless {}, $class;
    }
    sub cow_say {
        say "Moo";
    }
    sub sheep_say {
        say "Baa";
    }
    sub horse_say {
        say "Neigh";
    }
};

BEGIN {
    package Local::Random::String;
    use overload q[""] => 'to_string', fallback => 1;
    use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;
    my @animal_say;

    sub still_a_function {
        say "still_a_function(". pp(\@_).")";
    }

    sub new {
        my ( $class, @options ) = ( shift, @_ );

        # @animal_say = @options;
        # return bless [], $class;

        return bless \&still_a_function, $class;
    }

    sub to_string {
        my ( $self ) = ( shift );
        my $ix = rand @animal_say;
        $animal_say[$ix];
    }

}
    ;

my $object = 'Local::Farm'->new();
my $method = 'Local::Random::String'->new( qw/ cow_say sheep_say / );




$object->$method for 1 .. 10;

-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "d:/tmp/pm/" -*-
Compilation started at Thu Dec 10 11:17:21

C:/Perl_524/bin\perl.exe -w d:/tmp/pm/overload_string.pl 
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])
still_a_function([bless({}, "Local::Farm")])

Compilation finished at Thu Dec 10 11:17:22

[tobyink]

It seems you are right. Any defined-but-non-coderef value is stringified if used as a method. You can even use an unblessed arrayref or hashref as a method name.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

my $method = [];

{
    package Local::Class;
    sub new {
        my ( $class ) = ( shift );
        bless {}, $class;
    }
    
    no strict 'refs';
    *{"$method"} = sub { say for @$method };
};

my $object = 'Local::Class'->new();

@$method = ( "Hello", "world" );

$object->$method;

[LanX]

> Any defined-but-non-coderef value is stringified

Correction: any "non-coderef value is stringified" , even undef is stringified to an empty string. ( It's just tricky to create a sub for an empty symbol. :)

  DB<199> $obj = bless {},"tmp"

  DB<200> $tmp::{''} = sub { say "empty" }

  DB<201> $meth = undef

  DB<202> $obj->$meth
empty

  DB<203>