Thanks for your reply, broquaint

Unfortunately, it was the only one and your pointers didn't give me the information I was looking for.

The approach in 178518 was quite similar to my "registry" approach: have object variables hidden out of scope. Rather, I found the approach in Attribute::Protected really interesting. It was one of my choices: using subroutine attributes. But I had no idea on how to mark a sub with Private, for example, and make it automatically callable only by the same package. Nor I knew of Attribute::Handlers.

Ok, now I have a direction for my research. Anyway, I would like some advice on different approaches:

• a-la-Class::Struct, with exported functions that install accessors by means of eval
• using subroutine attributes, and perhaps variable attributes (still experimental in 5.8?)
• installing methods on the fly using AUTOLOAD and *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { do { this() and that() } } ;
• ???

Thanks again

--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}

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