Formerly named Class::Template; exports a single
function, struct
. struct
takes a list of
element names and types, and optionally a class name, and creates a
Perl class that implements a "struct-like" data structure. It also
creates a constructor method, new
, for creating objects of the
class (so a class created this way must not itself
define a new
method).
Each element in the struct data has an accessor method, which is used to assign to the element and to fetch its value. The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package. Each element's type can be scalar, array, hash, or class.