use Carp qw(confess);
use Scalar::Util qw(reftype);
+use Symbol;
=head1 SYNOPSIS
sub new {
my $class = shift;
- my ($namespace) = @_;
- return bless { 'package' => $namespace }, $class;
+ my ($package) = @_;
+ my $namespace;
+ {
+ no strict 'refs';
+ # supposedly this caused a bug in earlier perls, but I can't reproduce
+ # it, so re-enabling the caching
+ $namespace = \%{$package . '::'};
+ }
+ return bless {
+ 'package' => $package,
+ 'namespace' => $namespace,
+ }, $class;
}
=method name
=cut
sub namespace {
- # NOTE:
- # because of issues with the Perl API
- # to the typeglob in some versions, we
- # need to just always grab a new
- # reference to the hash here. Ideally
- # we could just store a ref and it would
- # Just Work, but oh well :\
- no strict 'refs';
- return \%{$_[0]->name . '::'};
+ return $_[0]->{namespace};
}
{
my $namespace = $self->namespace;
if (!exists $namespace->{$name}) {
- # assigning to the result of this function like
- # @{$stash->get_package_symbol('@ISA')} = @new_ISA
- # makes the result not visible until the variable is explicitly
- # accessed... in the case of @ISA, this might never happen
- # for instance, assigning like that and then calling $obj->isa
- # will fail. see t/005-isa.t
- if ($opts{vivify} && $type eq 'ARRAY' && $name ne 'ISA') {
- $self->add_package_symbol($variable, []);
- }
- elsif ($opts{vivify} && $type eq 'HASH') {
- $self->add_package_symbol($variable, {});
+ if ($opts{vivify}) {
+ if ($type eq 'ARRAY') {
+ $self->add_package_symbol(
+ $variable,
+ # setting our own arrayref manually loses the magicalness
+ # or something
+ $name eq 'ISA' ? () : ([])
+ );
+ }
+ elsif ($type eq 'HASH') {
+ $self->add_package_symbol($variable, {});
+ }
+ elsif ($type eq 'SCALAR') {
+ $self->add_package_symbol($variable);
+ }
+ elsif ($type eq 'IO') {
+ $self->add_package_symbol($variable, Symbol::geniosym);
+ }
+ elsif ($type eq 'CODE') {
+ confess "Don't know how to vivify CODE variables";
+ }
+ else {
+ confess "Unknown type $type in vivication";
+ }
}
else {
- # FIXME
- $self->add_package_symbol($variable)
+ if ($type eq 'CODE') {
+ # this effectively "de-vivifies" the code slot. if we don't do
+ # this, referencing the coderef at the end of this function
+ # will cause perl to auto-vivify a stub coderef in the slot,
+ # which isn't what we want
+ $self->add_package_symbol($variable);
+ }
}
}