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


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