Here's Tie::Scalar::Once. It's not very complex.
# delays determination of a scalar's value until needed
package Tie::Scalar::Once;
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw( Exporter );
@EXPORT = qw( delay );
use strict;
sub delay {
tie $_[0], __PACKAGE__, \$_[0], $_[1];
}
sub TIESCALAR {
my ($class, $var, $code) = @_;
bless [ $var, $code ], $class;
}
sub FETCH {
my ($self) = @_;
my $val = $self->[1]->();
untie ${ $self->[0] };
${ $self->[0] } = $val;
}
sub STORE {
require Carp;
Carp::croak("Can't store $_[1] to a constant");
}
1;
Use it like so:
use Tie::Scalar::Once;
delay $x => sub { sqrt 2 };
# ...
if ($you_need_to) { print $x }
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