use Scalar::Util 'weaken', 'blessed';
-our $VERSION = '0.04';
+our $VERSION = '0.63';
our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:STEVAN';
-sub meta {
- require Class::MOP::Class;
- Class::MOP::Class->initialize(blessed($_[0]) || $_[0]);
-}
+use base 'Class::MOP::Object';
sub new {
my ($class, $meta, @attrs) = @_;
Class::MOP::Instance - Instance Meta Object
-=head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- # This API is largely internal
- # you shouldn't need it unless you are writing meta attributes or meta
- # instances
-
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The meta instance is used by attributes for low level storage.
Using this API generally violates attribute encapsulation and is not
-reccomended, instead look at L<Class::MOP::Attribute/get_value>,
-L<Class::MOP::Attribute/set_value> for the reccomended way to fiddle with
-attribute values in a generic way, independant of how/whether accessors have
+recommended, instead look at L<Class::MOP::Attribute/get_value>,
+L<Class::MOP::Attribute/set_value> for the recommended way to fiddle with
+attribute values in a generic way, independent of how/whether accessors have
been defined. Accessors can be found using L<Class::MOP::Class/get_attribute>.
This may seem like over-abstraction, but by abstracting
=item B<clone_instance ($instance_structure)>
+This too does just exactly what it says it does.
+
=back
-=head2 Instrospection
+=head2 Introspection
NOTE: There might be more methods added to this part of the API,
we will add then when we need them basically.
=item B<associated_metaclass>
+This returns the metaclass associated with this instance.
+
=item B<get_all_slots>
This will return the current list of slots based on what was
=item B<is_valid_slot ($slot_name)>
+This will return true if C<$slot_name> is a valid slot name.
+
=back
=head2 Operations on Instance Structures
instance it creates. For this reason, any actions on slots
require that the C<$instance_structure> is passed into them.
+The names of these methods pretty much explain exactly
+what they do, if that is not enough then I suggest reading
+the source, it is very straightfoward.
+
=over 4
=item B<get_slot_value ($instance_structure, $slot_name)>
=head2 Inlineable Instance Operations
-This part of the API is currently un-used. It is there for use
-in future experiments in class finailization mostly. Best to
-ignore this for now.
-
=over 4
=item B<is_inlinable>
Each meta-instance should override this method to tell Class::MOP if it's
-possible to inline the slot access.
-
-This is currently only used by Class::MOP::Class::Immutable when performing
-optimizations.
+possible to inline the slot access. This is currently only used by
+L<Class::MOP::Immutable> when performing optimizations.
=item B<inline_create_instance>