in reply to The Camel and the Panther

the panther has a good, if somewhat shallow introduction to OO perl. it certainly isn't obsolete yet.

of course, if you really want to learn about OO perl, sooner or later, you're going to have to pick up a copy of Damian's Object Oriented Perl.

anders pearson

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Re: Re: The Camel and the Panther
by toma (Vicar) on Jan 29, 2003 at 08:19 UTC
    Be sure to check out the errata for Damian's most excellent book. After I spent the time marking up my copy, the book made much more sense! There are at least 39 code improvements, many other corrections, and a few additions. Some of the fixes are quite clever! I recommend this book for learning OO.

    For me the hardest part of learning OO Perl is the lack of a definitive, paradigmatic way to implement inheritance. Instead it is TIMTOWDI, so an apodeictic book is problematic. Even now that I understand inheritance, recent nodes show that I am not alone in finding it knotty.

    It should work perfectly the first time! - toma

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