Re: Reference counts on self-tied objects

[Alan Burlison]

"Randy J. Ray" wrote:

> Unfortunately, I *need* the ability to have both:
> 
>         $obj->method()
> 
> and
> 
>         $obj->{KEY}  # Routed through __PACKAGE__::FETCH
> 
> work.

Great - so you don't actually need self-ties then.  You can do the above
without using self ties.  See Solaris::Kstat for an example of how to do
this.

> I will take a look at this. My code is that dependant on it. But I also
> need a band-aid solution, since any patch I come up with would be months
> (at best) from making it into distribution versions of Perl (not just Red
> Hat's, but Mandrake and others).

See above.

Alan Burlison