Yesterday I was subclassing Wx::StaticBoxSizer (for reasons that don't matter here) and found that, because it's based on a scalar ref rather than the more-usual hash ref, I couldn't store more data inside the objects. So I wrote Class::FakeAttributes to work round this and pretend to myself that I'm storing data in each object.
I've uploaded it to Cpan as somewhere to put it for discussion: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Class::FakeAttributes In particular: is this useful enough to merit a module? Is the concept stupid? Is this behaviour already available in another module that I didn't spot? Are there any obvious problems or memory leaks? And, of course, the name: is it appropriate? Can you think of anything that better encapsulates that 'oh I want to inherit from one of _those_ but it isn't hash-based' feeling? Thanks for your thoughts on this. Smylers
