Hi --

I am planning on using Class::MethodMaker like this:

package Simple;

use constant REQFIELDS => qw(a b);

use Class::MethodMaker
  get_set       => [REQFIELDS, qw(c d)],
  new_with_init => 'new',
  new_hash_init => 'hash_init';

sub init {
    my $self   = shift;
    my %values = (@_);
    foreach (REQFIELDS) {
        die "$_ doesn't exist" unless exists($values{$_});
    }
    $self->hash_init(%values);
    return;
}

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The idea is the object must define certain attributes at creation. Rather than start each class with this idiom, I was thinking of subclassing Class::MethodMaker as per the docs so I could specify certain get_set methods as 'required', such that the class would die if an object was created lacking these arguments.

The docs on subclassing C:MM leave me somewhat befuddled... Can anyone give me some suggestions how might I subclass C:MM to obtain this 'required' method functionality?

Thanks for any suggestions

rkg