I think we're going to be doing something like that. Trouble is, we only want to override DESTROY for objects that have been fetched from or stored with Pixie, so you have to do it with something like: 
my $anon_class = $self->get_anon_class;

eval "package $anon_class; use base qw/$target_class Pixie::Inner/"; 

$anon_class->object_info(Pixie::ObjectInfo->new(object_id => $oid);

bless $fetched_obj, $anon_class;

Pixie::Inner::object_info = sub { 
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;

    no strict 'refs';
    ${$class . "::object_info"} = shift if @_;
    return ${$class . "::object_info"};
}

Pixie::Inner::DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    my $class = ref $self;
    my $super_dest = $class . "::DESTROY";
    $self->$super_dest(); # Why doesn't UNIVERSAL::DESTROY exist alrea
+dy?
    $self->object_info(undef);

    delete $::{$class . "::"}
}

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We stick with Pixie::ObjectInfo, because we only need these scary tricks when the object isn't a hash. And we wouldn't need them if Perl did DESTROYs properly and called *all* the DESTROYs in an objects hierarchy, one could just stick the stuff you need in UNIVERSAL (or a superclass of UNIVERSAL if you're feeling Damianesque), and perl would call them automatically. Bah. This will break horribly if someone reblesses. Unless they either bless back, or knew exactly what they were doing...

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Are array based objects fixed length? by pdcawley
in thread Are array based objects fixed length? by pdcawley

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