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

[spider.git] / perl / DXCluster.pm

diff --git a/perl/DXCluster.pm b/perl/DXCluster.pm
index 5d35e4a3051adc784a2c2e40fabc81c332f277f2..2160846547e9e542b5c80413c3bc8c1201e46ccf 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXCluster.pm
+++ b/perl/DXCluster.pm
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ 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} ;
 }