I agree it's unlikely.

'nuff said.

Who said anything about a method call?

In the context of "Decoupling representation from behavior at the class or metaclass layer " I don't see how a faster direct access mechanism achieves that "decoupling". But I'll accept that I may have misunderstood you.

What I have in mind is something as fast as a lexical lookup, which as an indexed lookup (and, of course, modulo pad depth and optimization) is (often) quicker than a hash lookup.

I once went quite a long way in developing a closure-based object mechanism. By instantiating a full set of closures for every object instance--kind of JS prototypical I think?--you do get direct lexical access to instance variables. With the obvious downsides.

Maybe a new storage specifier somewhat like, but essentially opposite to state (perhaps 'volatile' or less C-like, 'instance'), could be added to perl 5 that would essentially create a new stash (duplicated from the package stash) could come into being for each new instance? Just a random thought that crossed my conciousness.

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In reply to Re^6: Some thoughts on Moose Attributes by BrowserUk
in thread Some thoughts on Moose Attributes by John M. Dlugosz

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