Filehandle?? Nonono. Read up on do. Basically, it's a way of wrapping a block around an assignment, kinda like what I've done there. The idea is to directly access the symbol table using a soft (or symbolic) reference to find the %__EDITABLE__ hash in the class of the object being used. This way, we don't have to hardcode the classname in.

Better yet would be to provide a method (called editable()?) which would return those values. This would play nicer with inheritance. Of course, the best solution is to have something that walks the @ISA tree, but that gets more complicated.