Re: Copying a Class::Accessor class to a CDBI class (CDBI::Plugin::Temp)

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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Speltz <peterspeltz@xxxxx.xxx> writes:

Peter> I tried this. I made a Music::CdTemp class based on C::A.   I first thought
Peter> Perrin and Tony were talking literally about using CDBI's copy method.  However
Peter> that is an object method so that doesn't work.  I tried move .  That is
Peter> deprecated.  So I encapsulated the "copy" functionality into a "create_real"
Peter> object method in the  *Temp class.

I've been successfully using:

  my $obj = My::Foo->construct({ ... });

to make a in-memory object.  Then when I want to "make it real",
it's just

  $obj = $obj->copy; # make it real

This "works".  Am I doing something likely to break in future releases?  It
seemed trivially elegant. :)

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