NAME MooseX::GlobRef - Store a Moose object in glob reference SYNOPSIS package My::IO; use Moose; use MooseX::GlobRef; has 'file' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1 ); sub open { my $fh = shift; open $fh, $fh->file or confess "cannot open"; return $fh; } sub getlines { my $fh = shift; return readline $fh; } my $io = My::IO->new( file => '/etc/passwd' ); print "::::::::::::::\n"; print $io->file, "\n"; print "::::::::::::::\n"; $io->open; print $io->getlines; DESCRIPTION This module allows to store Moose object in glob reference of file handle. The class attributes will be stored in hash slot associated with glob reference. It allows to create a Moose version of IO::Handle. The attributes can be accessed directly with following expression: my $hashref = \%{*$self}; print $hashref->{key}; or shorter: print *$self->{key}; but the standard accessors should be used instead: print $self->key; AUTHOR Piotr Roszatycki LICENSE Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 by Piotr Roszatycki . This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html