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Symbol::Glob 0.01 (Score:1)
As a nice bonus, I got a chance to try the inside-out object model and Class::Std. Found it much easier to concentrate on getting the details of the glob manipulation right because I knew that the object access code was safe.
I did find one thing I needed to do that wasn't simple with Class::Std. As you noted, removing a symbol table entry safely consists of deleting the glob altogether, then inserting the fields you want to keep back into the glob again. A Class::Std class doesn't let you iterate over all of the fields in the object easily, because they aren't *in* the object. I ended up creating a mapping hash that mapped method names to the storage hashes to be able to find them all easily.
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