to be honest, i also feel that perl would gain a lot more brownie points from many quarters if it took OO just a little more seriously at the syntactic level (my pet hobby horse). i too would like to see some overarching consistency and unification of perl OO features with its OO contempories. although with greater consistency inevitably comes some loss of flexibility, i still have very high hopes for perl6. having coded OO perl at a very high level in a rather large OO perl app, its limitations are pretty clear to me -- perl needs method prototypes (in perl6), declarative types (in perl6), and good quality autogeneratable doco from src (possible with the first 2). also, OO should not have the rather large performance penalty it currently has in perl... but that is a minor thing compared to the others. i have recently needed to re-implement some old perl classes in c with OO perl wrappers due to speed and memory consumption becoming an issue.

matt

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