Can you tell us what kind of "code smells" you've observed, and also, can you tell us if you've seen any evidence they're really causing you problems? Compliance with doctrine isn't the ultimate goal, of course...

The one abuse-of-objects practice that I've seen really cause problems is "the Blob anti-pattern": one of the few things I really like about "Objects" is they way they handle encapsulation, and if you've got everything shoveled into one namespace, it hardly matters if you call that namespace an "object" or a "bloated script".

In general, I've been coming to the conclusion that having a nice barrage of automated tests is the key thing: compared to that, every other issue (choice of language; design patterns; OOP/proceedural; inside-out, upside-down or sideways, etc) is nearly insignificant.

(Though I don't think "Test First" programming isn't strictly necessary, "Test Soon" is good enough.)

In reply to Re: Really Writing Object Oriented Perl by doom
in thread Really Writing Object Oriented Perl by agianni

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