misusing Perls OO system

Such an emotive, subjective and utterly meaningless criteria to apply a metric to.

He wrote (writes?) practical, pragmatic, relatively efficient, well-structured modules, with well thought out interfaces that work, across many platforms, and continue to work a decade or so later.

And those things are far more important to me, and to the thousands of general users of his modules, than any airey-fairy, nancy-wancy theoretical 'not-good-OO' or academic O'Woe critiques.

By all means, be the one(*) to re-write IO::Handle or IO::Socket::* using the latest greatest OO framework. And when you're done 3 years from now and you have a mess of OO-spagetti, it'll be 10x as big, take 20x as long to load and run half as fast. And no-one will use it.

The difference between good and bad OO is not whether it performs all internal attribute accesses through setters and getters in order to more easily accommodate the wholesale change of the internal data representation that will never happen. It is: is the interface clean; and: does it work in an efficient manner.

The whole point of abstraction is to hide the difficult stuff behind simple, clean interfaces. So that the module writer can use his knowledge and expertise to best effect, and the user can benefit from that expertise without having to become an expert.

Barr's module do exactly that.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

In reply to Re^3: Improving your skills by reading module sources by BrowserUk
in thread Improving your skills by reading module sources by unlinker

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