ikegami recently posted a question that eventually led me to the new perlclass documentation.

I haven't been following along that much, but it seems intriguing.

I have a ton of OOP code using the old-school bless() way of doing things, and after a cursory look at this documentation, my gut says that I shouldn't change anything. There have been so many iterations of OOP modules and such, it just seems that it'll keep changing over and over again. However, with that said, I've been around a long time, and considering almost all of my code will still run on 5.8, Perl is known for its backward-compatibility.

What are your thoughts on this new way of Perl OOP development? Are you embracing it? Are you sticking with the old? For long-time developers, are you considering transitioning?

Legitimately curious,

-stevieb

In reply to Anyone migrated to the new 'class' way of OOP? by stevieb

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