[ic] Subroutines and ActionMaps

[Mark Gibson]

On Monday 27 Jan 2003 2:53 pm, Mike Heins wrote:
> One more note on this --- you can also call the Sub via:
>
> Sub <<EOF
> sub do_stuff {
> 	...
> 	return $myresult;
> }
> EOF
>
> ActionMap myaction <<EOF
> sub {
> 	...
> 	my $stuff = $Config->{Sub}{do_stuff}->();
> 	...
> }
> EOF

I'm having another problem regarding 'Sub', they don't seem to work in
[perl] blocks.

Lets assume we have defined the do_stuff() sub as above.
The following doesn't work (within an HTML page):

[perl] return do_stuff(); [/perl]

I keep getting (in global error log):
Safe: Undefined subroutine &main::do_stuff called at (tag 'perl') line 1.
>
> return do_stuff();
>

BUT, the following works fine:

[perl] return $Config->{Sub}{do_stuff}->(); [/perl]

Have I missed something, or is this a bug?

I think it would be a useful feature if 'Sub' routines could be called from
anywhere in the catalogue, (ie. ActionMaps, UserTags, other Subs, [perl], 
[calc], [mvasp], etc.)
as there doesn't seem to be anywhere else to place reuseable functions
(or again, have I overlooked something?)

Cheers
-- 
Mark Gibson <gibsonm@cromwell-tools.co.uk>
Web Developer
Cromwell Group Holdings Ltd