Re: invalid installdirs values patch

# from David E. Wheeler
# on Saturday 27 September 2008 22:36:

>I somehow doubt that the ternary made it difficult to review. When I  
>change it, it will be very nearly identical.
>
>> I think this needs to seek "one of the other ways to do it":
>>  # Allow to work in class or object context.
>>  my $x = do { no strict 'refs'; $self->{properties} };
>>  return $x->{$property} unless @_;
>
>Oh, big time. But that was how I got the tests to pass. I have no idea  
>why properties need to work in a class context.

Yeah.  This is what I'm about to commit.  I think it needs to just go with "no strict 'refs'" in each of those blocks (with a comment mentioning "class method"!) and then we'll triage the symbolic ref issue in another go. 

http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/Base.pm.extract_accessors.patch

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