NAME Class::Tie::InsideOut - Inside-out objects on the cheap using tied hashes REQUIREMENTS Perl 5.6.1, and Scalar::Util. INSTALLATION Installation can be done using the traditional Makefile.PL method: Using Makefile.PL: perl Makefile.PL make test make install SYNOPSIS package MyClass; use Class::Tie::InsideOut; our @ISA = qw( Class::Tie::InsideOut ); our %GoodKey; sub bad_method { my $self = shift; return $self->{BadKey}; # this won't work } sub good_method { my $self = shift; return $self->{GoodKey}; # %GoodKey is defined } DESCRIPTION This module is a proof-of-concept for implementing inside-out objects using tied hashes. It makes use of the Tie::InsideOut package to tie hash keys to hashes in the calling package's namespace. Fields are accessed as hash keys, so in traditional Perl objects can be easily converted into inside-out objects. More information can be found in the module documentation. REVISION HISTORY A brief list of changes since the previous release: 0.11 2014-02-19 - No functional changes to distro. - Added note about status. - Removed reference to Build.PL from POD and README. - Deleted matching version test. - Added note about Hash::Utils in SEE ALSO section. 0.10 2014-02-19 - No functional changes to distro. - Reformatted Changes to CPAN::Changes::Spec. - Changes to use Module::Install for Makefile.PL and removed Build.PL. - Modernised distribution for GitHub. For a detailed history see the Changes file included in this distribution. SEE ALSO There are various other inside-out object packages on CPAN. Among them: Class::InsideOut Class::Std Object::InsideOut AUTHOR Robert Rothenberg <rrwo at cpan.org> Acknowledgements Thanks to Ovid (via Chromatic) and Steven Little for advice in PerlMonks on the namespace issues with Class::Accessor. Suggestions and Bug Reporting Feedback is always welcome. Please use the CPAN Request Tracker at http://rt.cpan.org to submit bug reports. STATUS This module has not been seriously updated since 2006, and inside-out objects have largely fallen out of favor since then. It has been marked as `ADOPTME' on CPAN. LICENSE Copyright (c) 2006,2014 Robert Rothenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.