Re: Does there exist a CPAN module for lazily initialized variables?

Ideally, the module used would be a dispatcher to the actual module needed, similar to how File::Spec dispatches to the right File::Spec::* module, depending on OS. So, you'd actually have Tie::Lazy and Tie::Hash::Lazy / Tie::Scalar::Lazy / etc. I think that would meet brian_d_foy's need for well-named distros ...

Is there a way of doing that kind of auto-detection?

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Re^2: Does there exist a CPAN module for lazily initialized variables? by jryan (Vicar) on Jul 14, 2004 at 18:54 UTC
The only way I can think of is to put all three sets of tie-methods in the same package, and let dispatch to the right ones automagically (with a bit of extra logic to deal with the common methods). I did this in Sub::Sealed, but that was a joke module, so I didn't really bother to find out if that was best-practice.	[reply]