Re: Re: Iterating over *any* thing in Perl

Some people use hashrefs or arrayrefs for their objects, and stuff all the attributes in the things the references point to (and those same people will vote '++' for if someone posts a coding guideline saying "Don't use global variables"). The advantage is that you can access the attributes all the time, from everywhere - the same advance as putting all your variables in main:: gives you.

What would you recommend should be done instead?

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Re^3: Iterating over any thing in Perl by adrianh (Chancellor) on Dec 04, 2002 at 01:13 UTC
Some options (in no particular order): Use a proper OO language ;-) Wait for Perl 6 Use inside out objects (for me, the neatest discovery from perlmonks so far - ++Abigail-II). Hide your objects implementation behind a proxy object (Class::Delegation is handy for this sort of thing). Document that you use a hash. Document the slot(s) that you use. One idiom that I've seen a few times is to do it as `$object->{CLASS_NAME}->{SLOT_NAME}` Any more for any more?	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Iterating over *any* thing in Perl
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Dec 04, 2002 at 01:13 UTC

Some options (in no particular order):

Use a proper OO language ;-)
Wait for Perl 6
Use inside out objects (for me, the neatest discovery from perlmonks so far - ++Abigail-II).
Hide your objects implementation behind a proxy object (Class::Delegation is handy for this sort of thing).
Document that you use a hash. Document the slot(s) that you use. One idiom that I've seen a few times is to do it as $object->{CLASS_NAME}->{SLOT_NAME}

Any more for any more?

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[d/l]