Re: Properties as hash keys, damn perl is cool!

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> [2003-10-30 04:13]:
> that and i don't see the value in replacing $obj->set(foo =>
> 'bar'); with something like $object->foo('bar'); that isn't
> more perlish, it's just a different and un-obvious way of doing
> something already available. 

I would disagree it's not more Perlish. Combined setter/getters
that set the value of a property if given parameters and return
it if not are quite Perlish; for the final touch, they should
return $self as a setter. Then you can do stuff like

$obj
    ->foo(1)
    ->bar('baz')
    ->quux(answer => 42);

Lots of modules employ this style, too.

You're right that we have a potential for future collisions here
though.

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