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hi monks,

I'm a big fan of objects that are implemented as arrays.
They save a bit cpu, they save a bit memory, and while it may not be much, the fact that it's saving cpu *and* memory attracts me =)

also, with arrays instead of hashes, I can't be tempted to access the attributes by accessing the hash directly.

I can't find a module on CPAN that does that for me. Class::Accessor and similar modules use hashes.
Is there a module that does that? Otherwise I would like to write a little module myself (I know, there are already a lot of these kind of modules...). Here's a starter:

package Class::Accessor::Eval;
use Carp qw(croak carp);
use strict;
use warnings;
sub import {
    my ($self, %args) = @_;
    my $get = $args{get};
    my $set = $args{set};
    my $names = $args{names};
    my $class = caller();
    for my $i (0..$#$names) {
        my $name = $names->[$i];
        my $get = $get;
        my $set = $set;
        for ($get, $set) {
            s/\$name/$name/g;
            s/\$i/$i/g;
        }   
        my $code = <<"EOM";
package $class;
$get
$set
EOM
        eval $code;
        if ($@) {
            croak "Error compiling $name: $@\n";
        }
    }
}
1;

#############

package Foo;
use Class::Accessor::Eval
    get => <<'EOM',
sub get_$name {
    $_[0]->[$i]
}
EOM
    set => <<'EOM',
sub set_$name {
    $_[0]->[$i] = $_[1]
}
EOM
    names => [qw(name age city job salary ...)];
#####################

package main;
my $foo = bless ["foo", 100], "Foo";
use Data::Dumper;
warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\$foo], ['foo']);
print $foo->get_age,$/;
$foo->set_age(23);
print $foo->get_age,$/;
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a 'new' method is missing, and a default if you don't want to write the get/set yourself.

any comments? If noone finds that a useful module it's probably worthless to upload it. I'm also seeking for a better name.

update: maybe Class::Accessor::Fast::Array would be a possibility. that would keep it simple and follow the standard of Class::Accessor

update2: marty (Class::Accessor) actually will release an additional module that would work like my C::A::F::Array idea. he has the code ready, it just needs to be tested and released.

In reply to Objects as arrays but with autogenerated getters + setters by tinita

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