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Tie-ExecHash-0.91
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NAME

Tie::ExecHash - Give special powers to only some keys in a hash

VERSION

version 0.91

SYNOPSIS

use Tie::ExecHash;

my %foo = ();
tie( %foo, 'Tie::ExecHash');

$foo{'bar'} = 1;
print "$foo{'bar'}\n"; # 1

my $baz = "red";

$foo{'bar'} = [ sub { $baz = $_[0] }, sub { $baz } ];

print "$foo{'bar'}\n"; # red

$foo{'bar'} = "a suffusion of yellow";

print "$baz\n"; # a suffusion of yellow

DESCRIPTION

What this does is allow you to have some hash values act like they are tied scalars without actually having to go through the trouble of making them really be tied scalars.

By default the tied hash works exactly like a normal hash. Its behavior changes when you assign a value of an arrayref with exactly two code blocks in it. When you do this it uses the first as the get routine and the second as the set routine. Any future gets or sets to this key will be mediated via these subroutines.

SEE ALSO

Tie::Hash

Tie::SentientHash

HISTORY

This was originally written as part of the development of "friv", the command line client for the Volity project. http://www.volity.org/

AUTHOR

Becca <becca@referencethis.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Rebecca Turner.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.