It might be overkill in my case but handy in others. :)

I just wondered what Uncle Bob might say about all this magic stuff.

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

perl -MCrypt::CBC -E 'say Crypt::CBC->new(-key=>'kgb',-cipher=>"Blowfish")->decrypt_hex($ENV{KARL});'Help

Perhaps the word "magic" pre-disposes a programmer against it. Especially us non-tolkien fans. But thinking about it more I say it aids transparency as far as I can know who reads or modifies my variablles. However, if by "magic", variables are unxplainedly altered then that's ACME territory.

Is this "magic" not the same as having a private variable within a class only accessible via magic hooks aka getter and setter methods which may spawn many actions in addition to getting and setting a variable?

I have no idea and never heard of Bob before.

But I wonder what you think. Care to elaborate?

Cheers Rolf
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