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- package Symbol;
- =head1 NAME
- Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
- use Symbol;
- $sym = gensym;
- open($sym, "filename");
- $_ = <$sym>;
- # etc.
- ungensym $sym; # no effect
- # replace *FOO{IO} handle but not $FOO, %FOO, etc.
- *FOO = geniosym;
- print qualify("x"), "\n"; # "main::x"
- print qualify("x", "FOO"), "\n"; # "FOO::x"
- print qualify("BAR::x"), "\n"; # "BAR::x"
- print qualify("BAR::x", "FOO"), "\n"; # "BAR::x"
- print qualify("STDOUT", "FOO"), "\n"; # "main::STDOUT" (global)
- print qualify(\*x), "\n"; # returns \*x
- print qualify(\*x, "FOO"), "\n"; # returns \*x
- use strict refs;
- print { qualify_to_ref $fh } "foo!\n";
- $ref = qualify_to_ref $name, $pkg;
- use Symbol qw(delete_package);
- delete_package('Foo::Bar');
- print "deleted\n" unless exists $Foo::{'Bar::'};
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
- C<Symbol::gensym> creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference
- to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a file or directory
- handle.
- For backward compatibility with older implementations that didn't
- support anonymous globs, C<Symbol::ungensym> is also provided.
- But it doesn't do anything.
- C<Symbol::geniosym> creates an anonymous IO handle. This can be
- assigned into an existing glob without affecting the non-IO portions
- of the glob.
- C<Symbol::qualify> turns unqualified symbol names into qualified
- variable names (e.g. "myvar" -E<gt> "MyPackage::myvar"). If it is given a
- second parameter, C<qualify> uses it as the default package;
- otherwise, it uses the package of its caller. Regardless, global
- variable names (e.g. "STDOUT", "ENV", "SIG") are always qualified with
- "main::".
- Qualification applies only to symbol names (strings). References are
- left unchanged under the assumption that they are glob references,
- which are qualified by their nature.
- C<Symbol::qualify_to_ref> is just like C<Symbol::qualify> except that it
- returns a glob ref rather than a symbol name, so you can use the result
- even if C<use strict 'refs'> is in effect.
- C<Symbol::delete_package> wipes out a whole package namespace. Note
- this routine is not exported by default--you may want to import it
- explicitly.
- =head1 BUGS
- C<Symbol::delete_package> is a bit too powerful. It undefines every symbol that
- lives in the specified package. Since perl, for performance reasons, does not
- perform a symbol table lookup each time a function is called or a global
- variable is accessed, some code that has already been loaded and that makes use
- of symbols in package C<Foo> may stop working after you delete C<Foo>, even if
- you reload the C<Foo> module afterwards.
- =cut
- BEGIN { require 5.005; }
- require Exporter;
- @ISA = qw(Exporter);
- @EXPORT = qw(gensym ungensym qualify qualify_to_ref);
- @EXPORT_OK = qw(delete_package geniosym);
- $VERSION = '1.07';
- my $genpkg = "Symbol::";
- my $genseq = 0;
- my %global = map {$_ => 1} qw(ARGV ARGVOUT ENV INC SIG STDERR STDIN STDOUT);
- #
- # Note that we never _copy_ the glob; we just make a ref to it.
- # If we did copy it, then SVf_FAKE would be set on the copy, and
- # glob-specific behaviors (e.g. C<*$ref = \&func>) wouldn't work.
- #
- sub gensym () {
- my $name = "GEN" . $genseq++;
- my $ref = \*{$genpkg . $name};
- delete $$genpkg{$name};
- $ref;
- }
- sub geniosym () {
- my $sym = gensym();
- # force the IO slot to be filled
- select(select $sym);
- *$sym{IO};
- }
- sub ungensym ($) {}
- sub qualify ($;$) {
- my ($name) = @_;
- if (!ref($name) && index($name, '::') == -1 && index($name, "'") == -1) {
- my $pkg;
- # Global names: special character, "^xyz", or other.
- if ($name =~ /^(([^a-z])|(\^[a-z_]+))\z/i || $global{$name}) {
- # RGS 2001-11-05 : translate leading ^X to control-char
- $name =~ s/^\^([a-z_])/'qq(\c'.$1.')'/eei;
- $pkg = "main";
- }
- else {
- $pkg = (@_ > 1) ? $_[1] : caller;
- }
- $name = $pkg . "::" . $name;
- }
- $name;
- }
- sub qualify_to_ref ($;$) {
- return \*{ qualify $_[0], @_ > 1 ? $_[1] : caller };
- }
- #
- # of Safe.pm lineage
- #
- sub delete_package ($) {
- my $pkg = shift;
- # expand to full symbol table name if needed
- unless ($pkg =~ /^main::.*::$/) {
- $pkg = "main$pkg" if $pkg =~ /^::/;
- $pkg = "main::$pkg" unless $pkg =~ /^main::/;
- $pkg .= '::' unless $pkg =~ /::$/;
- }
- my($stem, $leaf) = $pkg =~ m/(.*::)(\w+::)$/;
- my $stem_symtab = *{$stem}{HASH};
- return unless defined $stem_symtab and exists $stem_symtab->{$leaf};
- # free all the symbols in the package
- my $leaf_symtab = *{$stem_symtab->{$leaf}}{HASH};
- foreach my $name (keys %$leaf_symtab) {
- undef *{$pkg . $name};
- }
- # delete the symbol table
- %$leaf_symtab = ();
- delete $stem_symtab->{$leaf};
- }
- 1;
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