Re the OO part - there are a few problems with the class idea. Firstly, how do class and package relate? Are they synonymous? Can you have one inside the other?

On a somewhat higher level, what if the class construct isn't the best way to do OOP.

Some newer languages (Go and Rust) have avoided having a class construct (but still support some flavour of OOP).

And going back much further, we find works like the GOF book, which was based around two principles

So instead of just copying a sub-optimal construct that some other languages copied from others, maybe we ought to step back and look for better abstractions?

My own lengthy contemplation has led to a prototype of what such abstractions could look like. Mic provides Interfaces (which support Eiffel-like contracts) as a primary abstraction, and Implementations as a secondary abstraction.

I worry that what gets implemented would be "weaker" than what can already be achieved using libraries.

In reply to Re: Recap: The Future of Perl 5 (class) by Arunbear
in thread Recap: The Future of Perl 5 by Ovid

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