Tilly, that's actually very similar to what I've been doing in the meantime to work around this. I just wanted to look for a solution that would let me use the cleaner looking attributes

Here is an actual example of my work around:

sub _is_inactive {
    my( $self ) = @ARG;
    my( $realword ) = $self->realword;
    return $realword =~ $self->CHEVRON_QR;
}
install_sub( {
    code => __PACKAGE__->hash_instance_cache( 'sub' => '_is_inactive' 
+),
    as   => 'is_inactive' } );

[download]

As you may have guessed, I'm using all this to automatically cache the return value of the sub in the hash based object instance. A different issue altogether I'm sure ;) I just found myself working with references to hash values which can be repetitive and error prone so I abstracted it into an attribute but the that is also abstracted into something that can be used separately from attribute handlers.

In reply to Re^2: Attribute Handlers don't run when called at run time. by bennymack
in thread Attribute Handlers don't run when called at run time. by bennymack

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.