> Part of refactoring my code with Raku involves trying to put my code into packages.
> Folk here seem not to believe me, and think me just a lazy programmer unwilling to learn OOP, but try as I might I cannot understand it.

A few famous quotes:

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

-- Rob Pike

Show me your code and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious.

-- Eric S. Raymond

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

-- Linus Torvalds

To break our current impasse, how about having a go at describing your data structures instead of your code?

Updated: minor changes to wording. 

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In reply to Re^4: Ordering of parameters - Re^9: Converting Unicode by eyepopslikeamosquito
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