Comments on: Private methods in Perl5

By: wolfgang

wolfgang — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:47:52 +0000

I haven’t tried this private functions and methods in Perl5 and I guess it will be a good thing for me to try it. Hopefully to see your next version.

By: ScholarshipAdvice

ScholarshipAdvice — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:41:16 +0000

This is great, at first I didn’t really know that I can do this but as i tried working on it and see what it does, i am so delighted that I was able to read your post and very satisfied about it….thanks…

By: phaylon

phaylon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:15:18 +0000

(last comment was of course meant in addition to your functional usage of it, if you load it, why not use it? :)

By: phaylon

phaylon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Btw, you probably want to use ‘namespace::clean’ last, after all your other imports. It will remove anything imported before it, and will leave anything after alone.

By: Yuval Kogman

Yuval Kogman — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:55:54 +0000

In your test class your usage of private symbols is not as method lookups, but as function calls. $self->bar will not work, even from inside the Foo class where it should.

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Re: Private methods in Perl5 at Infinite Pig Theorem — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:37:59 +0000

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By: chromatic

chromatic — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:05:45 +0000

I’m not sure you get “private methods” with this approach. You won’t be able to invoke private subs as methods this way, as when the time comes to perform the lookup, the symbol is no longer available.

By: frew

frew — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:36 +0000

You can also do private methods without any magic at all. Heres a super basic example:

package Foo;

my $private_foo = sub { print “private” };
sub public_foo { my $self = shift; $self->$private_foo }