NAME

invoker - implicit invoker, sort of

SYNOPSIS

use invoker;

sub foo {
  my $self = shift;
  $->bar; # calls $self->bar;
}

# use Method::Signatures::Simple
# method {
#  $->bar # ditto
# }

DESCRIPTION

the invoker pragma enables the $-> syntax for invoking methods on $self , inspired by Perl6's $.method invocation.

The module does not inject the $self variable for you. you are encouraged to use it in conjunction with self, <Method::Signatures::Simple>, or other similar modules.

The following syntax works:

$->foo( .. args ...)

$->foo

$->$method_name

The following syntax does not work:

$->$method_name( .. args ...)

CAVEATS

WARNINGS WARNINGS WARNINGS

This is alpha code. Do not use in production.

Internally, the module installs a check on the > (gt) op. if the left operand is $- (some format-related perlvar you probably shouldn't be using), it then replaces the optree with an appropriate entersub with method_named.

TODO

make sure context are correct

custom invoker name with "use invoker '$this'"

AUTHOR

Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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