> I guess in the absence of Class::InsideOut, having > Class::OutOfBandAttributes as a band-aid isn't a bad idea. > (There's a lot of orders of magnitude less useful stuff out on > CPAN..) Primary problem with creating a Class::InsideOut is the problem of where the hashes go. If you dont mind using dynamics for them then you have no problem. If you want them in lexicals then I would say theres not much room to manoever, and in hind site implementing an inside out object/attribute is so easy (its pretty small, heres what I use for good general coverage:) use Scalar::Util qw(refaddr); { my %attrib; sub inside_out { my $s=shift; if (@_) { $attrib{refaddr($s)}=shift; return $s; } else { return $attrib{refaddr($s)}; } } } The refaddr is useful because it allows for $s to have stringification overloaded. YvesThread Previous | Thread Next