[Dbix-class] Unnecessary re-fetching via belongs_to relationships?

[Matt S Trout]

Mark Blythe wrote:
>> Yeah, it currently does that.
> 
> Ok, thanks for confirming it.  I'll do my best to re-factor my code
> around it for now.
> 
>> Making it the same object would either create a circular reference or result in
>> one copy going out of scope taking the rest out of scope.
> 
> Maybe weak references (5.8+) and/or proxy objects?

Weak refs => one copy going out of scope takes the rest out of scope

Proxy objects ... hard to do nicely. I suspect making the objects their "own 
man" and caching the data itself elsewhere would be safer.

> (although a data caching solution would be cool)
> 
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