Writing your own objects in Perl is an excellent learning exercise and is perfectly fine for small projects (OO enthusiasts might disagree, but I think there's nothing wrong with whipping up one or two classes this way when best practices are followed). If you're going to be writing a lot of OO code, nowadays there are a lot of modules that can help you. The best-known one is Moose, and chromatic's "Modern Perl" has a chapter on it ("regular" Perl objects like the one you're writing are described later on in that chapter, "Blessed References"). Some people prefer Moose's smaller siblings, such as Mouse, Moo or even Mo (although that might be a little too small ;-) ).

In reply to Re: OO best practice basic questions by Anonymous Monk
in thread OO best practice basic questions by Amblikai

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