You can create your own user-defined types in Perl. They're called objects. In addition, you can overload the various operators. I'm pretty sure you can overload ++, both postfix and prefix, but don't quote me on that.

Then, all you do is create each tap as an instance of this Tap class. This will also be really good cause I'm sure you can think of other operations you'd love to either have a tap do or be able to do on a tap, like copy it or set various attributes.

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In reply to Re: alphanumeric autoincrement? by dragonchild
in thread alphanumeric autoincrement? by HK

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