So, this just brings up another question.

There seems to be at least 3 major modules to do this. Object::InsideOut, Class::InsideOut and Class::Std. So which one do I use?

I need a "production ready" solution which is why I was rolling my own. In the absence of information on those modules, I wasn't sure if they were really robust or not. Are they all pure perl? Is one of these going to be a core module soon?

I don't have a definitive answer for you, but perhaps this will help.

• Class::Std is written by TheDamian, referenced by PBP, and it's the only one I've actually used. From what I hear, it has trouble with threading, but I haven't done any threading, so I haven't cared.
• Object::InsideOut seems to be the kitchen sink version, written after Class::Std, in an effort to address its drawbacks. It may be slow.
• Class::InsideOut is the small and simple version. I don't know anything about it.

Three of my modules on CPAN use Object::InsideOut. When I get home this evening, I will run prove on the source code tests on jcwren's server and post the results as well as the actual tests themselves. This will at least provide a very rough idea for a benchmark

Update: I got home late last night and went straight to bed. I will be doing the testing and posting of results this evening. shmem also asked me to test the Alter package as well.

Update: And as promised, the results. I did the testing on my laptop (P3,2.2Ghz,512MB) running Strawberry Perl (Perl 5.8.8)


C:\Documents and Settings\Thomas Stanley\My Documents\WORK-GQT>prove t
+\*.t
t\01load..........ok
t\02generate......ok
t\03exceptions....ok
t\04exceptions....ok
t\04pod...........ok
t\05pod...........ok
All tests successful.
Files=6, Tests=18,  3 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 
+CPU)

C:\Documents and Settings\Thomas Stanley\My Documents\WORK-Config-Yacp
+>prove t\*.t
t\01load.......ok
t\02getset.....ok
t\03add........ok
t\04delete.....ok
t\05newinit....ok
t\06pod........ok
All tests successful.
Files=6, Tests=25,  3 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 
+CPU)

C:\Documents And Settings\Thomas Stanley\My Documents\WORK-Logger-Simp
+le>prove t\*.t
t\01load.........ok
t\02readwrite....ok
t\03lock.........skipped
        all skipped: File Locking not working on MS Windows
t\04pod..........ok
All tests successful, 1 test skipped.
Files=4, Tests=6,  4 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 C
+PU)

C:\Documents And Settings\Thomas Stanley\My Documents\Work-Alter\Alter
+-0.07>prove t\*.t
t\01_load........ok
t\02_function....ok
t\03_class.......ok
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=91,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 
+CPU)
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TStanley
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Good question.

And, actually, I'd just figured everyone was using Moose these days.