I know you'll hate what I am about to say, but I find Perl 5's OO syntax rather ugly. Looks better with your module, but you still have to write classes full of $this->{X} and my $this = shift; that are a nuisance - mostly if compared to the rest of the language and its overall elegance. With your module, the syntax is rather similar to PHP's objects, and it's frankly better than Perl's (no pun intended - really).

Am I the only one feeling that Perl syntax about objects is awful? I believe a language should primarily be a tool to think in, and then a way to tell a computer to do things. I'd better not think in Perl 5 objects....

In reply to Private rant by l3nz
in thread How about class Foo {...} definition for Perl? by gmpassos

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