You could be so much lazier.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::Array;

package Tie::Array::LastAccessed;
use base qw( Tie::StdArray );

my %last_accessed;

for my $methname ( qw( STORE FETCH ) ) {
    my $supername = "SUPER::$methname";
    my $glob = do { no strict 'refs'; \*{ $methname } };
    *$glob = sub {
        my $self = shift;
        my ( $idx ) = @_;
        $last_accessed{ 0 + $self } = $idx;
        $self->$supername( @_ );
    };
}

sub which {
    my $self = shift;
    $last_accessed{ 0 + $self };
}

sub what {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->FETCH( $last_accessed{ 0 + $self } );
}

sub DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    delete $last_accessed{ 0 + self };
    $self->SUPER::DESTROY();
}

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Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Tied array to track last-accessed element by Aristotle
in thread Tied array to track last-accessed element by davido

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