1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.

[spider.git] / perl / DXDb.pm

diff --git a/perl/DXDb.pm b/perl/DXDb.pm
index a7f31acca8ec1f4e07b59c187b910e252b77e812..0f30e5b05b423d31d698c0700b4c21353525e39f 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXDb.pm
+++ b/perl/DXDb.pm
@@ -347,6 +347,9 @@ sub AUTOLOAD
        $name =~ s/.*:://o;
   
        confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
+       # this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
+       # from OO Perl - Conway
+       *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {@_ > 1 ? $_[0]->{$name} = $_[1] : $_[0]->{$name}} ;
        @_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$name} ;
 }