# New Ticket Created by Nicolas R. # Please include the string: [perl #132488] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132488 > I would like to open a discussion and get feedback on a Storable patch that I am considering to submit to blead. The idea is to introduce a flag in order to let a user disable or not: "bless" and "tie" features from Storable. You can read the patch online here: https://github.com/p5h/perl5demo/pull/33 As the patch stands the original behavior is preserved. "bless" and "tie" are enabled when storing/retrieving objects. We could consider to change (or not) this default value in the future. For this reason, the patch introduces a constant 'Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT' to guarantee over time a consistent behavior. $Storable::flags = Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT; Then a customer can disable both "bless" and "tie" by setting the flag to 0, in their script (no guarantee that any other dependency would set it to a different value, but this is something else). $Storable::flags = 0; # to disable bless and tie support when Or users can simply disable one or the other $Storable::flags = Storable::BLESS_OK; $Storable::flags = Storable::TIE_OK; Any concerns about such a patch? Are you ok with setting the default value to "Storable::BLESS_OK | Storable::TIE_OK" (which is also Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT)? Would you consider changing the default value in the future? thanks nicolasThread Next