Ok, a conversation came up in pdcawley's journal, and I thought I should share something with y'all as most people don't seem to know about it.
Basically, the topic centered around whether or not to always return $self (for method chaining) or a value (for, say, an lvalue).
With Want, by Robin Houston (robin), you can distinguish based on calling context. So, for example, you can tell the difference between these:
$obj->method1;
$obj->method1->method2;
$val = $obj->method;
myFunc($obj->method);
Want can do much more than this (eg rvalue subs, etc), but I find the "want('OBJECT')" call to be the most useful. :)
Enjoy!
