Even if you are using the functional methods, you are really still using an object, $CGI::Q.

For most applications with CGI.pm, I use the functional. It keeps it alot cleaner and has never been a problem for myself. You can still use the object oriented methods when you want.

Update
I just want to add, that I use the html generation for all of my applications and even with the functional interface, advanced layouts are really ugly. (I like keeping my code and presentation together for most big apps as ours tend to have a few users at a time and upward of 20 different screens and we can subclass CGI to enforce what we send and recieve as we know what we output. Less fragile for our applications. )Adding lots of $q-> doesn't help make it any easier to understand.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: OO CGI vs. function-oriented by shotgunefx
in thread OO CGI vs. function-oriented by krujos

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