I buy that.

But it's not a far stretch to use very very light-weight classes and use a simple hash for the properties until you need something more. This is an entire class in a small steal-entries-from-http://buzz.bazooka.se/-and-fake-email-posts-to-our-internal-bullshit-list-at-work program I wrote for the fun of it after a coffe break discussion: 

package Buzz::Post::Comment;
use HTML::Entities;

sub new { my $pkg = shift;
    bless(my $self = { @_ }, $pkg);

    $self->{text} =~ s{<br />}{\n}gs;
    $self->{text} = decode_entities($self->{text});

    return($self);
}

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It's not really a serious class in that you can't see what properties there are, there is no documentation, no visible interface to new() etc.

But the benefits I get are:

Basically it's the same laid-back scripting attitude, but with a touch of structure.

/J

In reply to Re^3: How a script becomes a module by jplindstrom
in thread How a script becomes a module by brian_d_foy

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