It isn't weak, it's flexible. It's that simple

And C isn't a weak OO language, it's flexible! You have the freedom to build any OO framework you like with C. I'll leave you with a quote from TheDamian's book (page 296):

Encapsulation is one of the cornerstones of object orientation, but it's the area in which Perl's support for object-oriented programming is the weakest. ..... Fortunately, Perl's flexibility can be turned against itself to provide a means of building objects that respect the encapsulation imposed by their classes.

And this node for a discussion of (and solution for in followup) how Perl's simple inheritance breaks encapsulation of the superclass. I justify my original comment on the basis that if you need to jump through hoops to get some feature (in this case encapsulation), support for that feature is 'weak'.

In reply to Re: Re^4: Perl - Is it an OO Language by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl - Is it an OO Language by krisahoch

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