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You can look at Moose, which makes OO writing pretty easy.

A class is declared as:

package Class::Name;
a package is a symbol table namespace, in which symbols are stored. Every class has it's own package which it lives in.

Constructors are anything which calls bless, you should read perltoot to get a handle on that, but if you want to ignore that Moose will provide a default constructor named new for you.

Every class gets DESTROY called right before it's garbage collected. You can hook to that. C<Moose> let's you specify sub DEMOLISH which does not have to call the super class's destructors.

Inheritence is controlled with the special variable @ISA in every package, which contains a list of base classes. YOu can use the extends keyword in Moose to clean that up a bit.

Accessors are autogenerated for you when you use attributes, like:

has name => ( is => "rw", # what accessor to generate, can also be wo or ro );

I don't know what you mean by contexts - that's a very general term.

-nuffin
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