SYNOPSIS In lib/Your/Class.pm: package Your::Class; use Class::Accessor::Array::Glob { accessors => { foo => 0, bar => 1, baz => 2, }, glob_attribute => 'baz', }; In code that uses your class: use Your::Class; my $obj = Your::Class->new; $obj->foo(1); $obj->bar(2); $obj->baz([3,4,5]); $obj is now: bless([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], "Your::Class"); DESCRIPTION This module is a builder for array-backed classes. It is the same as Class::Accessor::Array except that you can define your last (in term of the index in array storage) attribute to be a "glob attribute", meaning it is an array where its elements are stored as elements of the array storage. There can be at most one glob attribute and it must be the last. Note that without a glob attribute, you can still store arrays or other complex data in your attributes. It's just that with a glob attribute, you can keep a single flat array backend, so the overall number of arrays is minimized. An example of application: tree node objects, where the first attribute (array element) is the parent, then zero or more extra attributes, then the last attribute is a globbing one storing zero or more children. This is how Mojo::DOM stores its HTML tree node, for example. SEE ALSO Other class builders for array-backed objects: Class::Accessor::Array, Class::XSAccessor::Array, Class::ArrayObjects, Object::ArrayType::New.