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I meant this question in a more general sense than Class::DBI. Other people originally posed their Demeter problem in CDBI's light. I'm thinking of how to reapply this to YAML.pm, some code at work implemented in a VB dialect, B::Deparse, and perhaps, I suppose, Alzabo or other OO-RDBMS mappers. It wasn't my primary concern.

Thank you for the amplification on CDBI, however.