To address the above discussion really quick - do HeckIfIKnow->new( ... ) and sidestep the whole problem. Larry himself has said that indirect method calling was a mistake.

To address the OP's question ... there are a few commonly-used classes (Class::MethodMaker and Class::Struct) that I would examine, if I were you. Personally, I found the exercise of creating my own OO-base class to be both fun and edifying.

As for what's wrong ... I can't say this with certainty, but it looks like you're using classes as a way to created HashesThatCanDoStuff. It's still primarily a data structure, just jazzed up. Now, that's fine and all, but it's not OO. OO is three things (q.v. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ObjectOriented for more info):

  1. Encapsulation (You can't poke inside the Foo)
  2. Inheritance (You can make a Bar that is-a Foo)
  3. Polymorphism (A method of Foo will do different things depending on the calling context)

While Perl's OO gives you 2 & 3 without you doing anything, HashesThatCanDoStuff don't have Encapsulation. (In fact, pure data-hiding is non-trivial in Perl, but that's another story.)

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In reply to Re: Reducing Perl OO boilerplate by dragonchild
in thread Reducing Perl OO boilerplate by flyingmoose

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