Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Will Coleda (via RT) wrote: > So, since we can we can already get the current namespace with: > > current_ns = interp['namespace'] > This isn't a full replacement of the functionality we'd "lose", since you may want to get the namespace of a sub other than the one you're currently executing. There may already be a way to do that, though...if not, maybe the sub PMC needs a get_namespace method.
Actually, it already has one.
I vote we change Sub's get_string to return the simple name instead > of the full name. Gets my vote too.
Mine too. I almost changed this myself a couple weeks ago.
> Below is a patch to do just that (mdiep++). Hearing no objections > (anyone?), I'd like to get this into 0.4.10. > > With it applied, there are ~13 core subtest failures, those will need > to be fixed to expect the new behavior. > Just to be clear - are they tests of what Sub stringifies to rather than failures as a result of other bits of the core expecting Sub to stringify to something including the namespace? Not that both can't be fixed, just curious.
There's some of both, I think. I recently had to change a test to expect the long name of a Sub because there was no way to get the short name. -- Matt Diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com
