Moose, MOP, Moo, Mouse, and the advances that have arguably made Perl5 a superior OO language to Python and Ruby and Java

I'd like to see that argument!

I'm not against it; I'd just like to see:

1. the benefits of Moose/Mop/et al. laid out;
2. a comparison with the OO in those other languages.

My perception of Moose is that it is an expensive getter/setter generator. My perception of MOP is that is provides for introspection -- that has few if any legitimate uses.

I'd like to be persuaded that I'm wrong.

Up front: I am not the right one for the job; I am largely recycling things I’ve read and heard. My experience domain in OO in other languages is sparse. So, I’ll rely on an expert!

I'd say the Moose OO model is far more powerful and useful than Python's. Roles, method modifiers, lazy builders, delegation and coercion are all really good for reducing repetitive code and improving OO design. With enough work most of that can be emulated in Python, but Moose gives it to you straight out of the box. –Re: Python OO v Moose

Perl supports a vast ground of different techniques and does not hinder from crossbreeding or intermixing. Types + coercion for example, only hinted in the quote, can be bondage oriented or loose and accommodating or anything in between. You can write Perl that does what Java does in the way it does it (though private methods and such are less fun, you know they can be done in at least a couple ways; anonymous/lexical code and inside-out). You can’t do the reverse. Every personal sweet spot in between is possible in Perl. And though some languages—as I understand it, I’m *not* a xlang OO exert in the slightest—make some of the techniques easier and remove some of the bad behavior (like methods bumping into functions)… still Perl can do it.

Now to recycle another thing someone else said recently: The main problem with Perl isn’t Perl, it’s that while the CPAN is enormous, Perl at large is not grounded enough in complete, out of the box, applications. WordPress or Wikimedia would have been easy to write in Perl for example but the ethos of the Perl community, in my estimation, finds it more fun to work on gears than complete machines… I’ve thought a lot about this and I’ve never come to any conclusions; why, is it better, should, could it change? PHP only exists and flourished, in my view, not because Perl couldn’t do what it ended up being but because the Perl hackers of the day wouldn’t.

I ducked most of the real question, I know. It would be a good bit of work to address for someone who is an expert. It would be a three month research project for me. :P

What would be the Moose version of this (a queue that maintains a fixed size by evicting the oldest items) ?

class FixedSizeQueue
    def initialize(size)
        @max_size = size
        @items = []
    end

    def pop
        @items.shift        
    end

    def push(item)
        @items.push item
        if @items.size > @max_size
            pop            
        end
    end
end
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With usage

2:16% irb -r ./fsq.rb
irb(main):001:0> q = FixedSizeQueue.new(3)
=> #<FixedSizeQueue:0x9317c6c @max_size=3, @items=[]>
irb(main):002:0> q.push 2
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> q.push 3
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> q.push 5
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> q
=> #<FixedSizeQueue:0x9317c6c @max_size=3, @items=[2, 3, 5]>
irb(main):006:0> q.push 7
=> 2
irb(main):007:0> q
=> #<FixedSizeQueue:0x9317c6c @max_size=3, @items=[3, 5, 7]>
irb(main):009:0> FixedSizeQueue.instance_methods(false)
=> [:pop, :push]
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I heard this argument that in process of Perl6 development perl5 got better OO, 'mop', Moose , etc etc etc

I am not bying this, and here is why:

Not a secret that most of these ideas was already in the air, and invented some 20 or 30 years ago...
and not a secret that LISP had better and superior OO system (CLOS) which was then stolen into the perl6...

In my vision, the people that were busy with choosing OO system for perl6 could spent their efforts and develop perl5 mop OO system directly from LISP to perl5, if they wish to.

What happened with Perl6 - is that at y2000 there was a number of inspiration based on success of perl5 and on fitire perl5++ which is to be perl6...
what happened then - after 10 years - the project stale, and then existence of the name 'perl6' became more of a problem, and damage to the community started happening.

You could accept that or not, but this is what happened.
Not recognizing this problem is another problem, which makes resolution even harder.

I was also inspired by perl6, and very much like its syntax and power....
but I do not see any usable implementation of perl6...