Re: $ME in a method called as a subroutine

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol")
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.objects
Organization University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Piers Cawley wrote:

> > In my opinion the contents of $ME should allow to determine wether it was
> > called as a procedure or as a method, the easiest way to do that is undef
> > for procedure, object for method and classname for class methods.
> 
> Procedure reference for a procedure call please. It makes for some
> nice wins with anonymous subroutines...

Recursion would become possible in anonymous subroutines.  That seems
like it would warrant its own reserved magic variable, perhaps &ME which would
mean that in any setting, \&ME for a reference to it.
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