use v5.14; package Cell { use Moose; use Types::Standard -types; has name => (is => 'rw', isa => Str); __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; } package Grid { use Moose; use Types::Standard -types; use List::Objects::Types -types; my $CellType = (InstanceOf['Cell'])->plus_coercions( Str, sub { 'Cell'->new(name => $_) }, ); has cells => ( is => 'ro', isa => TypedArray[TypedArray[$CellType]], coerce => 1, handles => { get_row => 'get', set_row => 'set', all_rows => 'all', add_row => 'push', }, ); sub get_cell { my $self = shift; my ($row, $col) = @_; $self->get_row($row)->get($col); } sub set_cell { my $self = shift; my ($row, $col, $value) = @_; $self->get_row($row)->set($col, $value); } sub all_cells { my $self = shift; map { $_->all } $self->all_rows; } sub get_col { my $self = shift; my ($col) = @_; map { $_->get($col) } $self->all_rows; } sub set_col { my $self = shift; my ($col, $values) = @_; my @rows = $self->all_rows; for my $i (0 .. $#rows) { $rows[$i]->set($col) = $values->[$i]; } } sub add_col { my $self = shift; my ($values) = @_; my @rows = $self->all_rows; for my $i (0 .. $#rows) { $rows[$i]->push($values->[$i]); } } sub all_cols { my $self = shift; my $col_count = $self->get_row(0)->count; my $return_type = TypedArray[$CellType]; return map { $return_type->coerce($_); } map { [ $self->get_col($_) ]; } 0 .. $col_count-1; } sub to_string { my $self = shift; join "\n", map(join("\t", map($_->name, $_->all)), $self->all_rows); } __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; } my $grid = Grid->new( cells => [ [ 'foo1', 'bar1' ], [ 'foo2', 'bar2' ], ] ); $grid->add_col(['baz1', 'baz2']); $grid->get_cell(1, 1)->name('QUUX'); say $grid->to_string; __END__ foo1 bar1 baz1 foo2 QUUX baz2