Of course!

But that's no excuse not to learn it. Without knowing what the problem domain was, i can't agree that OO was not the right choice for your job.

"Yes, I can re-use some of my modules, but most of them were special-purpose..."

What's good about OO is that it teaches you how to make those decisions: when to generalize, when to specialize.

"...script has ballooned ... Mostly due to having to make constructors ... for about 10 different objects"

Don't forget the one line constructor: 

sub new { bless {}, shift }

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Sorry you now have a bad taste for OO. To be honest, i would rather teach someone OO in a language like Ruby or even Java before throwing them into Perl. Perl's OO is, in my opinion, more difficult to grasp than other languages. It's easy to turn OO into a big ball of mud, it's very easy to do that with Perl OO - but, personally, i love Perl OO!

Any chance of you throwing a couple of these objects on your scratchpad? I'm really curious to see what you have done. And congrats for finishing the project!

jeffa 

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F--
(the triplet paradiddle)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: OO 2 death? by jeffa
in thread OO 2 death? by Cestus

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