Thanks, lachoy. I've seen several pieces of code (including a couple of examples here at the Monastery) for auto-generating accessors using closures (which is apparently what Class::Accessor does). But I had never seen this module before; I think it might be useful.

I didn't auto-generate the accessors in this first draft because I wasn't sure of the design -- specifically what accessors I should use and how they should work. But that was stupid, because I could have shortened the code somewhat and made it just as easy to modify later.

(One of the purposes for this exercise was to use the language I know -- and love -- best to master concepts from languages I don't know. Do other languages have the ability to auto-generate accessors?)

Impossible Robot