{ package AoA; use namespace::autoclean; use Moose; has [qw(icol irow)] => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', default => 0, ); has 'rows' => ( traits => ['Array'], is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef', default => sub { [] }, handles => { add_row => 'push', get_row => 'get', set_row => 'set', all_rows => 'elements', count_rows => 'count', }, ); sub get_element { my $self = shift; @_ == 2 ? return $self->get_row($_[0])->get($_[1]) : return $self->get_row($self->irow)->get($self->icol); } sub add_col { my $self=shift; my $nrows = $self->count_rows-1; foreach my $i (0 .. $nrows){ $_[$i] ? $self->rows->[$i]->push($_[$i]) : $self->rows->[$i]->push(undef); } } sub get_col { my $self = shift; my $icol = shift || $self->icol; my $nrows = $self->count_rows-1; my @column; foreach (0 .. $nrows){ my $row = $self->get_row($_); $icol <= $row->count ? push @column, $row->get($icol): push @column, undef; } return \@column; } __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; } { package MyArray; use namespace::autoclean; use Moose; has 'i' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', default => 0, ); has 'ents' => ( traits => ['Array'], is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef', default => sub { [] }, handles => { push => 'push', get => 'get', set => 'set', elements => 'elements', count => 'count', }, ); __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; } use Modern::Perl; my $a0 = MyArray->new( ents => [ 0, [ 0, 0, 0 ], [1,2,3] ] ) ; my $a1 = MyArray->new( ents => [ 1, [ 1, 1, 1 ], [4,5,6] ] ) ; my $a2 = MyArray->new( ents => [ 2, [ 2, 2, 2 ], [7,8,9] ] ) ; my $a = AoA->new( rows => [ $a0, $a1] ) ; $a->add_row($a2); $a->add_col([3,3,3],[4,4,4],[5,5,5]); my $row0 = $a->get_row(0); my $row1 = $a->get_row(1); my $row2 = $a->get_row(2); my $element_22 = $a->get_element(2,2); my $col2 = $a->get_col(1); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $row0; print Dumper $row1; print Dumper $row2; print Dumper $col2; print Dumper $element_22; $a0->set(0,'cat'); print Dumper $row0;