Thanks, this is informative. I tested it out and saw that with "package pkgname;" just above the block of my parent class, I could move methods out to below the block of code and child classes could still inherit them. That's probably not a good idea. I guess the book's notation, with the package directive inside the block, is the most suggestive of the idea that the methods are specific to the class. That's probably what I'll stick with, and use 'package' statements outside of a block just for namespace (rather than OO Perl) purposes. But it's good to know about the new 5.14 syntax.

In reply to Re: OO Perl Baby Steps by Clovis_Sangrail
in thread OO Perl Baby Steps by Clovis_Sangrail

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