ch15.046_prob_ex15.8

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Example 15.8 (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 15 of "Perl Best Practices"  ##
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##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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#  Example 15-8. Another way to implement accessor methods


# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;

my %name_of;
my %rank_of;
my %serial_num_of;

# Provide access to the name attribute...
sub name :lvalue {
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $name_of{ident $self};
}
 
sub rank :lvalue {
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $rank_of{ident $self};
}
 
# Serial numbers are read-only, so not lvalue...
sub serial_num  {
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $serial_num_of{ident $self};
}