I see... Don't worry about how it'd be received. The Perl community is very diverse. Chances are very good that if it's useful for you in the kinds of programming you're doing, it'll be useful to someone else too. If you're looking for encouragement, here's some: go for it!. Either what you build will be better than what's out there, or it'll feel better to you to use, or at least you'll learn a lot doing it. And, with CPAN and Perlmonks, you'll have the advantage of sharing it with others who might find it useful too.

As far as the technical end, it might be useful to provide a switch of some sort to turn on/off access checking of various kinds. That is, when you're testing or developing, you can check for adherence to the contract (private/public/protected, compatible types, etc.), and be able to switch off the checking later. If you do it right, you can make it run faster without checking.

To check for violation of visibility, you could use caller() to see where you're being called from.

Good luck!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Idea on a Base class API by bikeNomad
in thread Idea on a Base class API by dragonchild

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