> How often do you actually end up wanting to add methods to something that started as a plain old datastructure?

When it happens and you need to refactor the code, it's a real pain in the @$$ ...

I think you don't see this situation, because you already incorporated all the ugly workarounds necessary.

> I think you invent a convoluted solution to a convoluted example.

Nope, actually I am spending lot's of time planing in advance to avoid this situation. (And I don't think I'm alone)

Other can just calmly start to code and easily react afterwards. That's one of the big advantages of OOP.

> Get it by tied(@array) and call whatever you need on that.

OK so I can extend the tied package with methods intead of creating a new one... well certainly an improvement. Thx! 8)

But do you really consider writing something like this

 tied(@employees)->list_actives()

to be more readable than

 \@employees->list_actives()

or even

 $employees_ar->list_actives()

???

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^2: Benefits of everything is an object? Or new sigils? by LanX
in thread Benefits of everything is an object? Or new sigils? by LanX

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