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Re: Perl - Is it an OO Languageby Zaxo (Archbishop) |
on Aug 26, 2002 at 18:11 UTC ( [id://192964]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Encapsulation is done with closures:
Polymorphism is done with use overload $op => sub {};, or with overriding functions. There are lots of examples in the link. Both mechanisms respect inheritance. Don't worry about 'true' OO. That is a chimera cooked up by religionists of various languages to put down other languages. Many take the ability to do something besides OO as disqualifying. OO is a methodology for design and structure. It's not the only one. Object Oriented Perl by TheDamian is the primary reference book. Perl's perlboot, perltoot, perltooc (AKA perltootc in 5.6 - thanks, demerphq, for pointing that out), perlbot are in the distribution as tutorials, along with perlref, perlobj, perlmod as references. After Compline,
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