NAME

       "Tangence::Meta::Property" - structure representing one "Tangence" property

DESCRIPTION

       This data structure object stores information about one Tangence class property. Once
       constructed, such objects are immutable.

CONSTRUCTOR

   new
          $property = Tangence::Meta::Property->new( %args )

       Returns a new instance initialised by the given arguments.

       class => Tangence::Meta::Class
               Reference to the containing class

       name => STRING
               Name of the property

       dimension => INT
               Dimension of the property, as one of the "DIM_*" constants from
               Tangence::Constants.

       type => STRING
               The element type as a Tangence::Meta::Type reference.

       smashed => BOOL
               Optional. If true, marks that the property is smashed.

ACCESSORS

   class
          $class = $property->class

       Returns the class the property is a member of

   name
          $name = $property->name

       Returns the name of the class

   dimension
          $dimension = $property->dimension

       Returns the dimension as one of the "DIM_*" constants.

   type
          $type = $property->type

       Returns the element type as a Tangence::Meta::Type reference.

   overall_type
          $type = $property->overall_type

       Returns the type of the entire collection as a Tangence::Meta::Type reference. For scalar
       types this will be the element type. For dict types this will be a hash of the array type.
       For array, queue and objset types this will a list of the element type.

   smashed
          $smashed = $property->smashed

       Returns true if the property is smashed.

AUTHOR

       Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>