First off, I don't see that Perl has any "limitations" when it comes to OO. I've been able to simulate every single OO feature I've ever wanted to have. You just have to be willing to either trust someone else's implentation (which is what you do for all other OO languages) or (what I do) roll your own.

First off, I've never used any package to do OO work. I've never even looked at any code (other than Advanced Perl, and it didn't even work out of the box).

What I do for data inheritance (both class and instance) is to have a virtual base class that does all that book-keeping for you. I've used $self->SUPER::new to do that, but I prefer the virtual base class.

As for method inheritance - isn't that what @ISA provides for you? Well, more of method re-dispatch, but isn't that the same thing?

As for class vs. inheritance methods ... If you have a huge amount of class methods vs. a small amount of instance methods, doesn't that mean you have a singleton? If you have a huge amount of instance methods and a small amount of class methods, doesn't that mean you're working with a set of objects that have a few book-keeping functions in the background? *shrugs*

I guess I just don't see things as black and white and many others do. I write stuff. It gets the job done. I have fun doing it. I get paid. I go home to my fiancee and kids. :-)

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In reply to Re: (Ovid) Re(3): A question of Inheritance by dragonchild
in thread A question of Inheritance by tradez

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