NAME fields::aliased - alias members created by the 'fields' pragma DESCRIPTION 'fields::aliased' extends the 'fields' pragmatic module to make compile-time class fields even easier to use...you get them aliased to lexical variables so that you don't have to constantly dereference the object within methods. As an example, let's take the following inane excerpt of a class named Example: package Example; use strict; use fields qw(scalar array hash); ## Constructor sub new { my $self = fields::new(shift); $self->{scalar} = 3; $self->{array} = []; $self->{hash} = {}; return $self; } sub sample_method { my ($self) = @_; $self->{array}[0] = 'yup'; print $self->{scalar}, "\n"; } The exact same effect could be achieved by the following: package Example; use strict; use fields::aliased qw($scalar @array %hash); ## Constructor sub new { my $self = shift->SUPER::new; field vars : $self; $scalar = 3; return $self; } sub sample_method { field vars : my $self; $array[0] = 'yup'; print $scalar, "\n"; } They perform the same operations, but you don't have to type "$self->" before all of the fields. This can make code much easier to read, especially for arrays and hashes. INSTALLATION To install this module, use the standard incantation: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install PREREQUISITES Perl 5.6 Tie::IxHash, Filter::Simple, Lexical::Util COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2004 Kevin Michael Vail This program is free software. It may be copied and/or redistributed under the same terms as Perl itself. AUTHOR Kevin Michael Vail