I guess I didn't make myself very clear in my last response -- when I say I'm writing a class generator, I mean that I'm designing a module with functionality similar to Class::MethodMaker. It is not a base class that I'm writing, but a module that generates class methods from "boilerplate" at run-time, thereby simplifying recurring issues that come up when writing OO Perl, like class-level and base-class-level data, attribute defaults, attribute accessors/mutators, etc. In practice, there will be no speed hit if the option to tie the class is not used, since no "tieing code" will be generated. I do want to leave the programmer the option to create such code; however, so I can simplify the process of writing such code as well.

Although you've now got me questioning whether there is any point in writing code to generate from "boilerplate" TIEHASH/FETCH/STORE routines when they will in probably just get overridden anyway. I definitely have to think in greater depth about what sort of generated code could even be useful in regards to the tie feature. Thanks for the insight.

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 3: DESTROY for tied classes by MeowChow
in thread DESTROY for tied classes by MeowChow

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