If you're new to the concept, you should probably start by reading up on OOD. That's Object Oriented Design. Pushing it far (and hard), I'd say that OOP is just syntax, while OOD is problem definition and problem solving.

Let me give you just a few ideas of what the benefits from OOD/OOP may be:

• You want to deal with a collection of data that 'belongs together', like dealing with everything that makes up a subscriber. That may be name, address and phone number. Well, put them together in one object and deal with them as 'subscriber'.
• Now you have a simple way to deal with a collection of many subscribers. (By instantiating many subscribers and putting the handles to all those in an array, for example).
• You may inherit from the definition of a subscriber to create a specialized list subscriber, thereby automatically have all the base information from 'subscriber' already given (inherited) and just adding the specifics for the list subscriber to your object.

Be prepared though, that there's a lot of new lingo that comes with OOD/OOP. In Perl, you may as usual choose how far you want to go with that as with anything else. TMTOWTDI. ;-)

You should probably read up on concepts like: Classes, Objects, Methods and Inheritance before you start learning how to program object oriented.

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