better diagnostics for get_symbol issues on bare anon stashes

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Package/Stash/PP.pm b/lib/Package/Stash/PP.pm
index 4996c39..8d95840 100644
--- a/lib/Package/Stash/PP.pm
+++ b/lib/Package/Stash/PP.pm
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ sub namespace {
     }
 }
 
+sub _is_anon {
+    return !defined $_[0]->{package};
+}
+
 {
     my %SIGIL_MAP = (
         '$' => 'SCALAR',
@@ -270,19 +274,25 @@ sub get_symbol {
     }
     else {
         if ($type eq 'CODE') {
+            if (BROKEN_GLOB_ASSIGNMENT || !$self->_is_anon) {
+                no strict 'refs';
+                return \&{ $self->name . '::' . $name };
+            }
+
             # XXX we should really be able to support arbitrary anonymous
             # stashes here... (not just via Package::Anon)
-            if (!BROKEN_GLOB_ASSIGNMENT
-                && blessed($namespace)
-                && $namespace->isa('Package::Anon')) {
-                # ->can will call gv_init for us
+            if (blessed($namespace) && $namespace->isa('Package::Anon')) {
+                # ->can will call gv_init for us, which inflates the glob
+                # don't know how to do this in general
                 $namespace->bless(\(my $foo))->can($name);
-                return *{ $namespace->{$name} }{CODE};
             }
             else {
-                no strict 'refs';
-                return \&{ $self->name . '::' . $name };
+                confess "Don't know how to inflate a " . ref($entry_ref)
+                      . " into a full coderef (perhaps you could use"
+                      . " Package::Anon instead of a bare stash?)"
             }
+
+            return *{ $namespace->{$name} }{CODE};
         }
         else {
             return undef;