Tanktalus:

Thanks for taking the time to type all of that! :D

What do you mean by if you never call it in the disapproved manner?

I did the caller thing to be even more lazy. Do you know if caller is slower in any fashion? ...or is using the $key route simply better self-documentation?

This is only natural inside a single object, however your callbacks are all external to your object, so that doesn't make a bunch of sense to me.
Callbacks meaning the anonymous subs (coderefs, closures)? I'm a little confused here. I initially put everything into self so pre, loop, and post could dynamically communicate, i.e., if pre has a my $var = 'something';, loop cannot see it unless it is in self, correct? Is there a better way? To further the explanation: Another file may want to check the existence of something in the hash, like so:

pre: my $exists = 0;

post: # processing using $exists, changing it, logging it

In reply to Re^2: OOP first-timer seeks feedback; likes long walks on the beach. by eff_i_g
in thread OOP first-timer seeks feedback; likes long walks on the beach. by eff_i_g

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