note Aristotle <p>I think I have something for you.</p> <p>I've been raking my brain for ways of having the attribute routine somehow register something like a hook whose call is delayed so that by the time the hook is triggered, the hash is on the pad. I hadn't been able to come up with any approach so far.</p> <p>The idea I just came up with is simple: [perlfunc:tie|tie]. <tt>:-)</tt></p> <p>Tie the attribute hash temporarily. The first access to it will trigger a call whence [cpan://PadWalker] can hopefully locate it. The rest is details - create an accessor closure in the appropriate package and untie the hash.</p> <p>Unfortunately I'm not of much help since 5.6.1 manages the pads differently and I can't write test code to confirm this. But you should be able to make something of it.</p> <p align="right"><em>Makeshifts last the longest.</em></p> 220776 220999