Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 2023-03-17 Fr 10:08, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >>> Why is $restart_before_query a package/class level value instead of >>> an instance value? And why can we only ever set it to 1 but not back >>> again? Maybe we don't want to, but it looks odd. >> It was mostly a POC to show what I meant with the functionality. I think >> there >> should be a way to turn it off (set it to zero) even though I doubt it will >> be >> used much. > > > A common idiom is to have a composite getter/setter method for object > properties something like this > > > sub settingname > { > my ($self, $arg) = @_; > $self->{settingname} = $arg if defined $arg; > return $self->{settingname}; > }
Or, if undef is a valid value: sub settingname { my $self = shift; $self->[settingname} = shift if @_; return $self->{settingname}; } - ilmari