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

[spider.git] / perl / DXChannel.pm

diff --git a/perl/DXChannel.pm b/perl/DXChannel.pm
index b7d32c44ad4f22e6a98693f7e531d373b61835fb..7a27a8f2bc3bd3a90eda6efaaf388e9c6bc312fc 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXChannel.pm
+++ b/perl/DXChannel.pm
@@ -466,8 +466,13 @@ sub AUTOLOAD
        $name =~ s/.*:://o;
   
        confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
-       @_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$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} ;
 }
 
+
 1;
 __END__;