Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 2023-03-17 Fr 10:08, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> Why is $restart_before_query a package/class level value instead of
>>> an instance value? And why can we only ever set it to 1 but not back
>>> again? Maybe we don't want to, but it looks odd.
>> It was mostly a POC to show what I meant with the functionality. I think there
>> should be a way to turn it off (set it to zero) even though I doubt it will be
>> used much.
>
>
> A common idiom is to have a composite getter/setter method for object
> properties something like this
>
>
> sub settingname
> {
> my ($self, $arg) = @_;
> $self->{settingname} = $arg if defined $arg;
> return $self->{settingname};
> }
Or, if undef is a valid value:
sub settingname
{
my $self = shift;
$self->[settingname} = shift if @_;
return $self->{settingname};
}
- ilmari
