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perl-Hash-Util-FieldHash - Support for Inside-Out Classes
- Description:
A word on terminology: I shall use the term field for a scalar
piece of data that a class associates with an object. Other terms that
have been used for this concept are "object variable", "(object) property",
"(object) attribute" and more. Especially "attribute" has some currency
among Perl programmer, but that clashes with the attributes pragma. The
term "field" also has some currency in this sense and doesn't seem
to conflict with other Perl terminology.
In Perl, an object is a blessed reference. The standard way of associating
data with an object is to store the data inside the object's body, that is,
the piece of data pointed to by the reference.
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