In the code you provided, you never directly look in the %_attribute_properties. It appears that your accessor only knows the type of the thing being accessed, because you have set the value with the mutator. If you modify the accessor so that it checks if the attribute exists, and if not, find the type of the attribute from the %attribute_properties, then the proper type should be returned.

As a nitpick, why not return references to the array and hash attributes, then you dont need to play dereferencing games, let the caller, because they need to know the type already...unless of course you want to return deep copies.

In reply to Re: OO Perl and AUTOLOAD by shemp
in thread OO Perl and AUTOLOAD by tucano

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