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

[spider.git] / perl / Prefix.pm

diff --git a/perl/Prefix.pm b/perl/Prefix.pm
index 41a95db8086ec106eec66a102ecda92324727497..263f5f82d138f42594a2cad27c98f8f6eef89a24 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Prefix.pm
+++ b/perl/Prefix.pm
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ 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}} ;
        if (@_) {
                $self->{$name} = shift;
        }