Re^5: OO in Perl 5: still inadequate

That's the single measurement that makes Perl 5 OO inadequate? Nothing else matters? That's the only thing you are going to use when you compare other languages?

Perhaps you should have chosen a better title for your node: "Perl OO encapsulation inadequate", because that's all you're talking about and its a very poor judge of a language's adequacy. Your claims that Perl is deficient come without anything Perl doesn't allow us to do or a way in which it fails to help us get work done.

I think, then, that I'd have to put your argument in the category of "mathematical purity wanking" because you haven't shown any inadequacy in any other dimensions I explained in my original reply. In everyday life, this issue is something far down on the list of things people care about.

As I said earlier, there are better things to argue about if you want to call Perl's OO inadequate. A better start is Perl's lack of objects. :)

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Re^6: OO in Perl 5: still inadequate by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 21, 2006 at 18:51 UTC
Sigh. First off, I noted it as an off-the-cuff note. I didn’t think this through deeply or spend much time to present a particularly coherent argument. But it’s something that chafes me about doing OO in Perl (yes, always). Would you argue that Perl without strict and lexicals would be… okay, let’s call it “not as adequate as Perl is now“? And would you dispute that a Perl without package globals would be “less adequate”? That’s all I want: strict for Perl 5 OOP. Sure, I get things done using the status quo. Inadequate doesn’t mean useless: after all, people wrote a lot of useful code in Perl 4 too, yet Perl 5 is undeniably a better language. Mathematical purity wanking? Shrug. If that’s what you want to call it, be my guest; I shall be a wanker. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]

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Re^6: OO in Perl 5: still inadequate
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 21, 2006 at 18:51 UTC

Sigh. First off, I noted it as an off-the-cuff note. I didn’t think this through deeply or spend much time to present a particularly coherent argument. But it’s something that chafes me about doing OO in Perl (yes, always).

Would you argue that Perl without strict and lexicals would be… okay, let’s call it “not as adequate as Perl is now“? And would you dispute that a Perl without package globals would be “less adequate”?

That’s all I want: strict for Perl 5 OOP.

Sure, I get things done using the status quo. Inadequate doesn’t mean useless: after all, people wrote a lot of useful code in Perl 4 too, yet Perl 5 is undeniably a better language.

Mathematical purity wanking? Shrug. If that’s what you want to call it, be my guest; I shall be a wanker.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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