in reply to Object methods from hashy structures

Also consider the Moose like so:

package Foo; use Moose; # define your attributes here ... my %ATTRIBUTES; @ATTRIBUTES{ qw( name age sex job) } = (); # create the accessors here ... for my $attribute ( keys %ATTRIBUTES ) { has $attribute => ( is => 'rw' ); } 1; package main; # assign values to your attributes ... my $foo = Foo->new( name => shift, age => shift, sex => shift, job => shift, ); # access the attributes here ... print join ( q{ }, 'Hi, I am ', $foo->age, 'year old', $foo->name, 'and i work as a', $foo->job, ) . "\n";

Then execute like so:

perl t.pl nelo 27 male bioinformatician

And you get the following:

Hi, I am 27 year old nelo and i work as a bioinformatician


Smoothie, smoothie, hundre prosent naturlig!

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Re^2: Object methods from hashy structures
by stvn (Monsignor) on Dec 24, 2007 at 22:22 UTC

    Moose actually has a built in feature/shortcut for this.

    package Foo; use Moose; has [qw( name age sex job )] => ( is => 'rw' );
    This will create 4 attributes (name, age, sex, job) in your Foo class, all of which have the same options (is => 'rw').

    -stvn