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 b71f754e640ee0b18bf441db8ccfc31b2ad9debd..263f5f82d138f42594a2cad27c98f8f6eef89a24 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Prefix.pm
+++ b/perl/Prefix.pm
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
 package Prefix;
 
 use IO::File;
-use Carp;
 use DXVars;
 use DB_File;
 use Data::Dumper;
-use Carp;
+use DXDebug;
 
 use strict;
 use vars qw($db  %prefix_loc %pre);
@@ -201,6 +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;
        }