Oooh. (No pun intended.) Thanks for the clarification. I have to admit that I was thinking mostly on the exposed interface level and didn't consider the innerds at all. Which on reflection upon the OP was reasonably dumb. :-)

But as a partial justification I was thinking of the way that you have one module with a clearly defined interface, that then automatically uses the appropriate overrides to provide a per OS functionality. While the class based interface is a touch annoying (ive taken to doing 

use constant FS=>'File::Spec';
my ($v,$p,$f)=FS->splitpath($0);

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as a shortcut) the versatility is not.

Thanks for the pointer though, while not feeling that I need that much extra OO exposure (I do almost pure OO perl, and I've read your and TOMC's and TheDamians books and writings on the subjects already) I will certainly take the time to review these modules to see if theres anything more for me to learn (probably ;-).

Incidentally, I wonder if pointing out Tie::SecureHash to the OP is worthwhile or not?

--- demerphq
Nice disclaimer :-)

In reply to Re: •Re: Re: Real life OO examples by demerphq
in thread Real life OO examples by kbeen

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