I guess…? I’ve never shared the concern for closed, hidden OO mechanics and I might not even understand your distinction between API and native functionality. Seems academic. We do these things inside the class to prevent typo bugs and leave the “API” open and integral for the other classes that might be concerned. Inside out objects and closures (which is how I would have done the queue to begin with) are possible of course. The point of the quote wasn’t that Perl is the best vanilla OO (the Ruby example is nicer than the most simplistic/direct/synonymous Perl recipes) it was: roles, mixins, coercions, traits, class methods, dispatch, lazy creation, setter/getter/clearer/predicate/builder shorcuts, typing, after, before, around, overriding, non-overriding additions, resolution order, contract style requires, MOP, on the fly generation, etc. :P

In reply to Re^8: The future of Perl? by Your Mother
in thread The future of Perl? by BrowserUk

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