Greetings Brothers! I'm a novice at object oriented perl (and OO programming in general), but it is starting to make proper sense to me.

But what I'm wanting to want to do is put comments in my objects. Some of the objects I'm building are rather large and complex. I have comments in my code, but I "feel" like it would be "right" to add some comments within the object itself to explain things to anyone who cared to dump it and inspect it. (Or for my future self, of course. I'm inclined to like the guy and don't want to give him a hard time).

I can't find any discussion of such a thing, or any obvious modules in cpan. That always makes me suspicious of my motives.

Am I wrong to want this? Is there something out there already to help me to it really nicely?

Or is this my first cpan contribution waiting to happen? :-)

Edit: I've been thinking in terms of just adding a hashref, perhaps named '#', and have its value be the comment. Or just sticking the comment in there as a hashref key.

In reply to Putting comments in an object by rastoboy

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