Re: protecting access to object instance fields?

E R <[email protected]> wrote:

>When I have an object (e.g. blessed hash) in the stash, I'd like to prevent
>TT from accessing any of the hash fields directly. It can still access the
>method functions.
>
>A simple example - suppose the TT template looks like:
>
>  [% obj.the_time %]
>  [% obj._unix_time %]
>
>and in the stash 'obj' is a blessed hash:
>
>package foo;
>
>sub new { bless { _unix_time => time }, shift }
>sub the_time { ... }
>
>I'd like the first GET to succeed and the second one to either fail, raise
>and exception, return the empty string or something like that.
>
>Is this possible?
>
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