On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:00 PM, David Garamond wrote: > thanks for the tip. the reason i am looking for "real" private > attributes in the first place because i need to give objects (which > are usually blessed hashrefs) to untrusted code. i certainly do not > wish the code messing with attribute values (and re-blessing them, but > 'bless' can be overriden, so i think this one's not a problem).
The Perl take on something like this is that if they do "re-bless" or whatever, they've violated your supplied interface and the ensuing chaos is their mess to clean up. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]