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in thread Tim O'Reilly on Perl

Yeah. The problem with them is one can't check the value before it is set. I would like to have something like
sub foo : get { my $self = shift; return $self->{_foo}; } sub foo : set { my $self = shift; my $value = shift; die "foo is a integer field!\n" unless $value =~ /[+-]?[0-9]+/; $self->{_foo} = $value; }


holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^8: Tim O'Reilly on Perl
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jul 17, 2005 at 23:12 UTC
    The problem with them is one can't check the value before it is set.

    Oh, but you can. I addressed that in To Validate Data In Lvalue Subs. The Constrained package from that node turned out to have lots of other uses, too. It's now called Tie::Constrained on CPAN.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo