[Israel.pm] how to intercept module calls

[Gaal Yahas]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:03:23PM +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> >     {
> >         no strict;
> >         @subs = grep { defined *{$pkg . "::$_"} } keys %{$pgk . "::"};
> >     }
> 
> err, that should be &{$pkg . "::$_"} or maybe *{$pkg .  "::$_"}{CODE}

Oops, indeed. Copy malfunction. (I meant the latter. How could I not
prefer the syntax that the documentation "lovingly" calls "*foo{THING}"?)

> > A .pm file can declare more than one package, and indeed can install code
> > in arbitrary other packages as well. I don't know of a good response to
> > the second of these problems.
> 
> You can copy the entire symbol table to another hash before and
> after loading the module, and then diff it using Data::Compare or
> even have a convenient hook called via Hash::Merge.

Two other things to consider: AUTOLOAD and wrappings/overrides that the
target module might itself perform.

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