fields-aliased version 1.04
===========================

NAME
    fields::aliased - create aliases for fields

SYNOPSIS
    package MyPackage;
    use strict;
    use fields::aliased;
    use fields qw($scalar @array %hash);

    sub new {
        my $self = fields::new(shift);
        fields::aliased::init($self);
        use fields::aliased qw($self $scalar @array %hash);

        $scalar = 1;
        @array = ('foo', 'bar');
        %hash = ('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'huh?');

        return $self;
    }

    sub myMethod {
        my MyPackage $self = shift;
        use fields::aliased qw($self $scalar @array %hash);

        ...
    }

DESCRIPTION
    This module is a companion to the 'fields' module, which allows
    efficient handling of instance variables with checking at compile
    time. 'fields::aliased' goes one step further and creates lexical
    aliases to the fields used by a method, so that they can be used
    as regular lexical variables. This makes code shorter and also
    easier to read.

CHANGES
    Version 1.04 admits that the private fields in superclasses thing isn't
    going to work transparently, and stops trying to initialize them.

    Version 1.03 make some changes so that private fields in superclasses
    work as expected.

    Version 1.02 adds some additional code in the XS source (a function I
    am using turns out not to be universally available).

    Version 1.01 corrects the MANIFEST.

    Version 1.00 was the initial release.

INSTALLATION

    To install this module, use the standard incantation:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

DEPENDENCIES

    This module requires these other modules and libraries:

        Tie::IxHash, Filter::Util::Call, Test::More (for the tests)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

    Copyright (C) 2004 by Kevin Michael Vail

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

    Kevin Michael Vail <kvail@cpan.org>