Re: gtk2-perl / easily accessing objects properties

[goran kirra net]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:09:41PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > we could change our perl objects so that hash access would be
> > > generic wrappers to automatically call set_property with the
> > > right property name and value, giving the following use:
> > >         $obj->{sensitive} = 1
> > needs a tie or a copy, 
>
> yep.
>
> > which slows down start time even if we don't use it
>
> do you think the slowdown is measurable? (I haven't made tests
> and haven't got significant experience on that topic)

If your can find a smart way to do it is a good thing
to have the syntacical suger.
Plain copying of values is not good.

/göran