Class:...:Lvalue(3pm)

💖 Class::Accessor::Lvalue — the perl manual, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, this is Class:...:Lvalue(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and yes the module's actual name is Class::Accessor::Lvalue 💅 (the header's just being dramatic with the abbreviation). We're gonna get you lvalue accessors and you're gonna thrive.

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✨ NAME ✨

Class::Accessor::Lvalue — create Lvalue accessors 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

package Foo;
use base qw( Class::Accessor::Lvalue );
__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(qw( bar ))

my $foo = Foo->new;
$foo->bar = 42;
print $foo->bar; # prints 42

like… you literally just assign to it. no ->bar(42) nonsense. it's giving direct assignment. it's giving main character energy. 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This module subclasses Class::Accessor so it can hand you lvalue accessor makers. That's the whole vibe. It takes what Class::Accessor already does and makes the accessors assignable, no cap. ✨

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😭 CAVEATS 😭

bestie listen, read this part, it's important:

• Though Class::Accessor mutators allow for the setting of multiple values to an attribute, the mutators that this module creates handle single scalar values only. Not the end of the world though — this should not be too much of a hinderance, because you can still explicitly use an anonymous array. 🙈
• Due to the hoops we have to jump through to preserve the Class::Accessor ->get and ->set behaviour, this module is potentially slow. 🐌

If you don't actually need the flexibility that the ->get and ->set methods grant you, it's highly reccomended that you use Class::Accessor::Lvalue::Fast instead — it's simpler and much faster. fr fr, go look at it. 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> — with many thanks to Yuval Kogman for helping with the groovy lvalue tie magic used in the main class. 🧚 the tie magic is genuinely iconic, we owe Yuval one.

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Class::Accessor
• Class::Accessor::Lvalue::Fast

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one's from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-10, filed under Class:...:Lvalue(3pm) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. go forth and assign directly, you absolute legend 💅✨