=head1 SYNOPSIS
- # for the most part, this protocol is internal
- # and not for public usage, but this how one
- # might use it
-
- package Foo;
-
- use strict;
- use warnings;
- use metaclass (
- ':instance_metaclass' => 'ArrayBasedStorage::Instance',
- );
-
- # now Foo->new produces blessed ARRAY ref based objects
+ # This API is largely internal
+ # you shouldn't need it unless you are writing meta attributes or meta
+ # instances
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This is a sub-protocol which governs instance creation
-and access to the slots of the instance structure.
+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
+been defined. Accessors can be found using L<Class::MOP::Class/get_attribute>.
This may seem like over-abstraction, but by abstracting
this process into a sub-protocol we make it possible to