This is a general PL/SQL utility that's supposed to be implemented for any object type that wants to return a custom name rather than acs_object.name().
PL/SQL can't call Tcl and the overriding logic is in the generic object PL/SQL code.
Calling these isn't bad if you have a small number of rows being returned, it's only when you're processing lots of rows that they're a problem. Though as I'm sure you know we're talking about denormalizing this data.
