Re^3: Compact data classes

As hdb points out, it's in the spoiler at the end of my post.

It's not on cpan because I wrote it -- actually adapted it from some existing code -- in reponse to your OP.

I'd want to use a few times myself and see what else it needs before putting it out for general use. For starters it needs some error checking and Carp for when things go wrong.

It'd also be nice to use pack templates to allow for numeric fields; but then it I'd have to drop the lvalue-ness of the accessors.

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Re^4: Compact data classes by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2013 at 16:52 UTC
Doh! I see it. This is very clever; compiled class and substr(). The only apparent downside is the fixed record length, but I could probably find a workable value for them. Given the roughly 5x overhead of Class::Struct, the savings ought to be well worth it. Let me PM you about error checking, etc. Thanks so much.	[reply]