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Moose doesn't offer lvalue accessors, which I believe is a deliberate choice.

Yes, very deliberate. Lvalue accessors are broken by design for anything other then simple accessors which require no validation or processing of arguments at all. The only way to get around this is to use tie() and to put all the validation/arg-processing in the STORE method that tie() uses. However this is a completely incorrect division of responsibility not to mention slow and kludgey, and all for such a small amount of syntactic sugar, it just wasn't worth it.

-stvn

In reply to Re^2: Using ArrayRef data members in Moose by stvn
in thread Using ArrayRef data members in Moose by dmorgo

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