Greetings fellow Monks. It's been a few weeks. I'm happy to report I'm making good progress on a fairly extensive project of mine thanks to all the kind help found here.

So one thing that is annoying me right now is the process of populating scalars with object properties to make code more readable. For example:

sub function {
  my $self = shift;
  
  my $val1 = $self->get_value1;
  my $val2 = $self->get_value2;
  my $val3 = $self->get_value3;

  print "Values: $val1, $val2, $val3";

}

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For me, I find transferring object properties to scalars is less error prone and makes code easier to read than something like: print "Values: " . $self->get_value1 . ', ' . $self->get_value2 . ', ' . ', ' . $self->get_value3"; or printf "Values: %s, %s, %s", $self->get_value1, $self->get_value2, $self->get_value3";

I know it's possible to do print "${\$self->get_value}" but that is just god awful.

Using scalars is also useful if I have to use a property several times in the same block of code or if there are many object properties to keep track of. It saves a lot of typing and, again, makes the code easier to read. But it still can be super annoying to create these scalars. I'm wondering if there might be some useful trick out there that will spare me the oh so tedium of creating scalars for my object properties. Thanks.

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In reply to Method for reducing tedium of transferring object properties to scalars by nysus

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