• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• Standard Methods

NAME

Class::MakeMethods::Template::Scalar - Methods for blessed scalars

SYNOPSIS

  package MyObject;
  use Class::MakeMethods::Template::ExternalData (
    new             => 'new',
    scalar          => 'foo',
  );
  
  package main;

  my $obj = MyObject->new( foo => "Foozle" );
  print $obj->foo();            # Prints Foozle
  $obj->foo("Bamboozle");       # Sets $$obj
  print $obj->foo();            # Prints Bamboozle

DESCRIPTION

Supports the Generic object constructor and accessors meta-method types, but uses scalar refs as the underlying implementation type, so only one accessor method can be used effectively.

Standard Methods

The following methods from Generic are all supported:

  new 
  scalar
  string
  string_index 
  number 
  boolean
  bits 
  array
  hash
  tiedhash
  hash_of_arrays
  object
  instance
  array_of_objects
  code
  code_or_scalar

See the Class::MakeMethods::Template::Generic manpage for the interfaces and behaviors of these method types.

However, note that due to special nature of this package, all accessor methods reference the same scalar value, so setting a value with one method will overwrite the value retrieved by another.