As the author of Class::SelfMethods and a co-author and current maintainer of Class::Prototyped, I'd like to give the nod to Class::Prototyped.

While Class::SelfMethods is small and the code is easy to understand, the interface and the whole approach is a hack. It solved the problem I had at the time pretty well, but it was definitely a kludge.

Class::Prototyped solves a much wider set of problems, has a much cleaner interface and approach, and is all around to be preferred to Class::SelfMethods. It does have a much bigger interface, but the core is still pretty tight and it solves a lot of problems that weren't solved by Class::SelfMethods.

CP:CSM :: Perl:BASIC

(Class::Prototyped is to Class::SelfMethods as Perl is to BASIC)

--Toby Ovod-Everett