I think Moose is overkill for this type of thing but Andy++ for this thread, I've been looking for something like this for a while too :)
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:23 AM To: Eric Wilhelm Cc: module-authors@perl.org Subject: Re: Must exist, right? On 19 Jun 2008, at 01:14, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > You want something like Object::Accessor, but without needing to > actually create the object? Yup. I want a read-only object with dynamically generated per object methods that reflect the internal data structure. > Assuming you could be bothered to call new() for the sub-object > (passing > it to the contructor, etc), just about anything including Moose would > work ;-) I'll let the more Moose-enabled folks comment on how > a 'default' sub (or some other setup) would do exactly what you want. I really /must/ look at Moose properly soon :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten