The "no trivial mutators" idea comes from the fact that if you wanted a struct, then you should have used a struct and left the OO baggage behind.

Java gets stuck on the fact that everything has to be an object, which means that when a struct really is the best way to do something (as it is in many simple programs), you still have to define it in terms of an object. That's an inheirent difficulty in single-paradigm languages.

We don't have that problem in Perl, but it's still good advice that if you're going to trouble yourself with OO, then you should really do OO. I'm not going to demand that you apply OO everywhere, only that if you use it, you use it correctly. Bad OO is often worse than not using it in the first place.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

In reply to Re^13: Assignable Subroutines by hardburn
in thread Assignable Subroutines by dragonchild

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