I am trying to identify the most painless way for generating object classes (so that I have many of the accessor methods defined for me etc) and for persisting and iterating over objects.

I have looked about and it appears SPOPS satisfies in most areas.

I dont fully understand the documentation and am about to start to try it out but thought I would ask the following questions first:-

1) All SPOPS field data examples I have looked at use single scalar values - can hashes and arrays be used as class data in an SPOPS object. If so is it as simple as defining a field and then setting it equal to a hash?

2) I understand that when SPOPS creates a class it can inherit methods from other classes via the isa config variable - how else can class methods specific to the new class be defined.

3) Where else can I find some worked examples.

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