[Parseperl-discuss] determining object types w/o executing???

[Mark E. T. <ma...@zz...>]

Howdy All,
	A very strange conglomeration events has led me here....
I'm very interested in attempting to determine what the type of an 
object would be at runtime - without actually having to run the program 
- say to determine available methods from a debugger (as mentioned in 
the recent article on perl.com).
	Clearly the code must be run to the point where the object is in the 
code to then 'ref' it to find out it's type - then something like PPI 
can be used to walk up the inheiritance tree collecting possible 
subroutines.
	Actually executing the program/script everytime just to determine the 
type of the object is a bummer - as who knows what the side-effects are 
of running & re-running the code over & over.
	Have you guys thought about how to tackle this?  It does seem the code 
has to be re-run everytime you would want to know the type of an object.
	I have a bizarro solution involving attributed-'my' variables to 
determine object types (replete w/code instrumentation via PPI) BUT 
re-running the code everytime sucks.
	Other then detecting whether the code has been modified before having 
to re-run it again have you guys come up with something to determine 
varaible types?
	It can't be possible... right???
		thanks!
			Mark