I find it interesting how quick people are to judge someone elses background. perl is the only language I have ever used in the real world. Granted that has only been about two years, and there is a lot I don't know about perl, but it seems ironic to me that some would say "don't do it this way because it will mean you won't have flexibility". I did a little bit of java and c++ in school, and I liked the way that they have their object systems. I don't think that it is being disloyal to perl to say that. This is adding another way to do it, not taking away from what already exists. I have used things like $self->{variable} over and over and that is why I hate them. I look forward to perl6 when such access to attributes will be built in. I don't really care if you don't want to use this kind of thing, What I would really like to know is how big of an overhead does using tie really cause? What are some of the risks of using 'local'?