I don't see why this wouldn't work from a technical perspective. Inside-out objects are just objects, after all. Do you have a particular concern about it? Or sample code?

I think the bigger question is whether a tied array is really the right interface. If you want pop and shift semantics, why not use methods?

$obj->shift()
$obj->pop()

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From the sound of it, though, you don't really want full array semantics, you just want the sugar of writing 'shift @tied'. On a pop, do you really want to exhaust and cache the iterator to find the last value to return? Do you want it to be expanded in a for loop:

for my $match ( @tied_result ) {
    # ...
}

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It seems like tying an array creates more interface confusion and likelihood for misuse.

-xdg

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In reply to Re: Combining "tie" and Inside-Out Objects by xdg
in thread Combining "tie" and Inside-Out Objects by rjray

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