Taking a "spaghetti code" using only global vars and forcing it into an object seems to me a little like sweeping the dust under the carpet: it's a little better, but very little, and perhaps it doesn't worth the effort.

Agreed, but if done right the "sweeping dust under the carpet" can still help you. Mainly it often allows you to have multiple objects although the original author thought you'd never need that, thus didn't provide the necessary hooks.

For example if Data::Dumper didn't offer an OO interface, it would be virtually impossible to use it with different configurations in different modules. I have no idea how it's implemented, but even if just swept all globals under the carpet of a single object, I'd still appreciate the difference.

(Mind you, I didn't look at the source code. I have no idea how it's implement. This is just a discussion about the interface).

In reply to Re^5: What are the core points of good procedural software design? (functions, code structuring) by moritz
in thread What are the core points of good procedural software design? (functions, code structuring) by Anonymous Monk

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