A Hash::AsObject is a blessed hash that provides read-write access to its elements using accessors. (Actually, they're both accessors and mutators.) It's designed to act as much like a plain hash as possible; this means, for example, that you can use methods like DESTROY and if the Hash::AsObject has an element with that name, it'll get or set it. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Hash-AsObject/