I'm thinking I should learn "old school" OO Perl for now before taking on Moo and Moose. Is that a good idea?

Neither :) see High level OOP query

Then skim through perlobj and perlootut

"old school" or Moo... that is the easy part (less typing or more typing) :)

The hard part is knowing When to Use OO and how to model your classes

Like Modern Perl says Creating and using objects in Perl with Moose (Moose, pp. 107) is easy. Designing good programs is not. It's as easy to overdesign a program as it is to underdesign it....

In reply to Re^5: Proper way to call subclass methods? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Proper way to call subclass methods? by nysus

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