[aklug] Re: Perl 5 OOP

I think I agree on this one, Perl's object handling is horrible. And
like others, I usually use Perl in a strictly imperative way.

*cough*

However. Though it's totally just a hack in Perl's symbol table, and
all you're *really* doing is passing "self" hash pointers to static
functions, it is sometimes nice to be able to store state and function
on an object after figuring out the procedural parts to it. Better
than storing everything in the global scope, I suppose.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
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> Okay, well here's a semi-random thought for the list:
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> Perl 5 OOP sucks. Even with Moose.
>
> I guess I've been pampered lately, working mostly with C++ and Java.
> Actually, Java has pretty cool feature which I just found out about
> recently (being a Java n00b) called interfaces, where you can actually
> define an interface (a sort of completely abstract class) and just
> attach it to any class you want, independent of the inheritance hierarchy.
>
> Anyway, right now I'm working with Perl because of a cool Perl module,
> but I have to switch my code over to OOP, and even the Moose interface
> seems awkward.
>
> I guess Perl 6 is supposed to improve that, but as Perl 6 doesn't even
> seem to be in the Gentoo repositories yet, I'm probably not going to
> play around with it.
>
> - --
> Christopher Howard
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Received on Wed Jan 6 16:06:04 2010