defclass and defmethod

opensourcer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi, what are these defclass and defmethod, i saw them in one of the examples.

defclass  EXAMPLE;

defmethod new: class
{
 .....
}

defmethod printone
{
.....
}

sub othermethod
{
....
}
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i have searched for documentation couldn't find about them. Can any 1 explain the hole concept or give me the url to the doc.
thanks

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Re: defclass and defmethod by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 11, 2007 at 08:37 UTC
That's not valid Perl syntax. If you can run this, you're probably using a Source Filter. Source filters are modules that generate Perl code from non-Perl files before Perl sees it.	[reply]