note ian Also, [id://443215|Higher Order Perl] has a section about [http://hop.perl.plover.com/grep.cgi?q=caching+in+object+methods|caching in object methods]. I also found someone demonstrating an example of a [http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/serious-perl/#oop_multiple_constructors|static cache]. <p> It also appears that the same person who'd written about static object caches also wrote a pragma called [mod://reform|<c>reform</c>] that adds helpful syntax for Perl 5 OOP. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-655030"> -- Ian Tegebo </div></div> 8215 8215