NAME MooseX::GlobRef::Object - Store a Moose object in glob reference SYNOPSIS package My::IO; use Moose; extends 'MooseX::GlobRef::Object'; has 'file' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1 ); sub open { my $fh = shift; open $fh, $fh->file or confess "cannot open"; return $fh; } sub getlines { my $fh = shift; return readline $fh; } my $io = My::IO->new( file => '/etc/passwd' ); print "::::::::::::::\n"; print $io->file, "\n"; print "::::::::::::::\n"; $io->open; print $io->getlines; DESCRIPTION This meta-policy allows to store Moose object in glob reference of file handle. The class attributes will be stored in hash slot associated with glob reference. It allows to create a Moose version of IO::Handle. The attributes can be accessed directly with following expression: my $hashref = \%{*$self}; print $hashref->{key}; or shorter: print do { \%{*$self} }->{key}; but the standard accessors should be used instead: print $self->key; You can use MooseX::GlobRef::Meta::Instance metaclass directly if you need more customised configuration. AUTHOR Piotr Roszatycki LICENSE Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 by Piotr Roszatycki . This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html