I have *most* of this code working - it's a demonstration of creating an object with private methods. Under most circumstances those methods *are* private. That falls apart when you use tricks to get to the values. If you read this code you'll see a basic object being created and then the next bit of code reaches in an grabs the lexical hash back out. The part I'm stuck on is how to turn the B::CV entries back into proper code references. I assume B has them somewhere - how do I get B to give them to me? That last step is all that I need to finish the code.

And yes, I do know about PadWalker. I'm trying to do this with stuff that's already in core perl.

use strict;
use warnings;
use constant DEBUG => 0;
use B;

{
  # Get my new really private object where even
  # the methods are hidden
  my $object = new object;
  
  # and now violate it. Privacy? Ha!
  my $c_hash = extractLexHash( $object );
  while (my ($key, $val) = each %$c_hash )
    {
      print "$key\t$val\n";
    }
}

sub extractLexHash
  {
    my $Obj = B::svref_2object($_[0]);
    my ($LexicalNames,
        $LexicalValues) =
      map { [ $_->ARRAY ] } $Obj->PADLIST->ARRAY;
    # for a cheap thrill print the contents of
    # $LexicalNames
    
    if (DEBUG)
      {
    print "Names\n";
    print "$_\n" for @$LexicalNames;
    print "Values\n";
    print "$_\n" for @$LexicalValues;
    exit;
      }
    
    my %Lexicals = ();
    for my $index
      (0 ..
       # min(@LexicalNames, @LexicalValues)
       (@$LexicalNames < @$LexicalValues ? @$LexicalNames : @$LexicalV
+alues))
    {
      next unless B::class($LexicalNames->[$index]) eq 'PVNV';
      my @values = $LexicalValues->[$index]->ARRAY;
      
      while (@values)
        {
          my $LexicalName = shift @values;
          my $LexicalObj = shift @values;
          $Lexicals{$LexicalName} = $LexicalObj->RV;
        }
    }
    return \%Lexicals;
  }

package object;
sub new
  {
    my %methods;
    %methods =
      ( me => sub { print "me!\n" },
    you => sub { print "you!\n" } );
    
    bless sub { $methods{me}->() }, 'object';
  }
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