NAME

    Class::PublicPrivate - Class with public keys with any name and a
    separate set of private keys

SYNOPSIS

    PublicPrivate is intended for use as a base class for other classes.
    Users of class based on PublicPrivate can assign any keys to the object
    hash without interfering with keys used internally. The private data
    can be accessed by retrieving the private hash with the private method.
    For example, the following code outputs two different values, one for
    the public value of start and another for the private value of start.

     package ExtendedClass;
     use base 'Class::PublicPrivate';
    
     sub new{
        my $class = shift;
        my $self = $class->SUPER::new();
        my $private = $self->private;
    
        # initialize one of the private properties
        $private->{'start'}=time();
    
        return $self;
     }
    
     package main;
     my ($var);
     $var = ExtendedClass->new();
     $var->{'start'} = 1;
    
     print $var->{'start'}, "\n";
     print $var->private()->{'start'}, "\n";

INSTALLATION

    Class::PublicPrivate can be installed with the usual routine:

            perl Makefile.PL
            make
            make test
            make install

    You can also just copy PublicPrivate.pm into the Class/ directory of
    one of your library trees.

METHODS

 YourClass->new(classname ,[initikey1=>initvalue [, ...]])

    Returns an instantiation of YourClass, where YourClass is a class that
    extends Class::PublicPrivate. Additional key=>value pairs are stored in
    the private hash. Programs that use your class can store any date
    directly in it w/o affecting the object's private data.

 $ob->private()

    Returns a reference to the hash of private data.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

    Copyright (c) 2000 by Miko O'Sullivan. All rights reserved. This
    program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself. This software comes with NO
    WARRANTY of any kind.

AUTHOR

    Miko O'Sullivan miko@idocs.com

VERSIONS

    Version 0.80, June 29, 2002

      First public release

    Version 0.81 May 18, 2014

      Minor tightening up of code. Fixed problems in packaging for CPAN.