Object Oriented Perl? July 12, 2008
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: Java, OO, Perl
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I love perl. Really. This is not a post inspired by “5 things I hate about Perl“, but rather a question for the wider perl community out there (hi perlshere!). How do you write your OO perl code?
I have some code out there that follows the inside-out objects methodology of Perl Best Practices. Lately I have been writing java code, and inside-out objects feel like a lot of extra – not very intuitive – work to create your classes. I have been looking at Moose, but again it looks pretty cumbersome to create classes (constructors, named parameters for methods, returns, etc.). I am just probably missing a good howto (besides the cookbooks on cpan) or even a printed book on Moose. Any tips out there to get into Moose fast or a nice complete and intuitive alternative (extra points if it’s similar to java’s OO framework)? Thanks.
EDIT (Feb. 16th 2009): it seems I have a direct line with The Perl Foundation: a grant was approved for Dave Rolsky to work on the Moose documentation. Yannick greated a nice pdf output of the manual (see this as well).
