I'm thinking you should take a break from writing code for a while and wrap your mind around basic OOP concepts though. In Perl, Raku, or any other language. The more you write about it, the more I'm convinced that's the solution you're looking for.

Perhaps you have not understood the post you responded to. I wish I could "wrap [my] mind around basic OOP concepts." I've tried many times. OOP is as alien to my mind as trigonometry--like numbers out of a black box that are inexplicable. Perhaps when folk here understand this, they'll be more sympathetic toward my reasons for coding as I do.

I do appreciate all the help. I even appreciate attempts to explain OOP. I just don't understand it, and must say that those attempts are, unfortunately, unproductive. My mind works with concrete concepts. Once "abstracted," I'm lost. I tend to resonate with the voices of a few I've heard that claim OOP was never such a grand thing and is now deprecated (but I didn't keep a link, sorry). If Raku can make the hard things easier (part of its mission), and convert what used to be abstract to a level of concreteness, then Raku will help me immensely.

Incidentally, are Raku questions welcome here on the Perl forum? or is Raku seen as an enemy competitor? Judging by the votes on my Raku-promoting remarks, I've sensed some hostility towards it (or me for suggesting it), so I'm unsure. If Raku has a separate forum somewhere, I haven't yet found it. It's hard for me to understand, given the improvements Raku makes, that Perl programmers would not more quickly adopt it--yet resistance here has been palpable.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^5: Ordering of parameters - Re^9: Converting Unicode by Polyglot
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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