most objects I run into are going to be anonymous hashes

That's a convention and it works only so long as people follow the convention. Conventions can change, unlike (or at least faster than) features built into the language.

In this case, when you fix the encapsulation issue, you break my whipupitude.

That's true, but so what? The "whipupitude" (?) was broken to begin with because it assumed that people would only write objects one way. Adding encapsulation just reveals that flaw and, ideally, would prompt some better thinking about "whipupping" in a more diverse way.

I go back to Storable as an example of a module that lets people work in either paradigm and is humble enough not to assume that things will always be done one way. Unfortunately, its way of doing that means implementing a custom hook.

We actually could use a more standard convention in Perl for a transparent structure for objects and built-in types. It would need to be complimented with a standard method name for generating/processing them to be useful in multiple places. That's where a "built-in" feature of the language could help create some standardization.

For example, just as we have stringification, numification, etc., via overloading, perhaps we need "objectification" to a standard format as well.

-xdg

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