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I don't use Inside-Out Objects (Score:2)
To add to all the good comments here, I'd like to add that I'm not using Inside-Out objects, but rather standard hash-ref-based objects, usually with Class::Accessor, (or Class::Accessor::Fast), ADAMK's Object-Tiny [cpan.org], and I've also done some work with Moose. I'm using everything but Moose mostly to get Accessors, and am still probably making little use of the Moose more-advanced features.
The reason I dislike Inside-Out objects is because I feel that they're too much trouble (like dumping or introspecting them) for too little gain (because I've expereienced very few related problems in hash-ref-OO that Inside-Out objects aim to solve.).
In Test-Run [cpan.org], which is based on Class-Accessor, the ::Base classes have become somewhat complicated, as I needed more features. I have an implementation of walk-method there, a sequence operation, a pluggable helper class, some abstraction to Text::Sprintf::Named and other things. I probably need to ask the Moose mailing list if there are solutions for all these things in Moose. As I said on IRC, "Every sufficiently Complex Class::Accessor program contains contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Moose.".
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