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rand has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
let's face it, perl wasn't built for object orientation. nevertheless a time may
come when you're forced to think about it - especially when designing and
building a medium to large scale application... i have been through the perltoot
and some o'reilly books but in combination with apache and modperl, the whole
thing starts to get real tricky. what are your experiences. is perl and oo feasable
? is oo and mod_perl a contradiction ? do you use oo anyway ? which
oo-features are the most important ? use the source, luke ! |
Re: ooperl
by Crulx (Monk) on Mar 04, 2000 at 06:27 UTC
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I agree with btrott. (Me too! *grin*)
Perl handles object oriented programming very well. I have
done several successful projects using OO perl. In fact, perl handles
every major OO feature that you could possibly need.
OO and mod_perl work fine. Follow the basic rules for
function building that you normally would use in mod perl
and you will be fine.
The only real thing "OO" thing that perl doesn't do is
information hiding. Perl like information to be there (in the form of hash keys usually), so any
information hiding that you do "need" to do will be through the
documentation. As long as you have programmed something in
an encapsulated manner and document it correctly, if someone
uses your class in a manner not specified by documentation, they
will suffer the consiquences (version issues, strange behavior).
Other than that, perl is wonderful and very free object oriented
language.
Try out some oo programming in perl... you will find it to your liking.
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Crulx
crulx@iaxs.net | [reply] |
Re: ooperl
by stephen (Priest) on Mar 06, 2000 at 02:58 UTC
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Hmm... I use Perl's object oriented model heavily. Yes,
Perl could use some UML tools (as well as a refactoring
browser, but that's off-topic.) It sounds like an ideal open-source project.
Anyone want to work with me on that one?
I don't think we need to harsh on rand (the original poster) for saying that Perl's
OO features weren't designed as a core part of the language.
They're there, and they work, but the object model isn't
as easy to grasp as other languages, because the language
allows you to program in OO instead of trying to force
it.
stephen
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Re: ooperl
by btrott (Parson) on Mar 03, 2000 at 23:39 UTC
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Well, I'm not necessarily sure that's something we just
have to "face". Perl may not have originally been built
for object orientation, but its OO model is quite simple,
powerful, and can be very useful.
Do you have any specific complaints about the OO model in
Perl (other than it "getting tricky")?
I use Perl's OO model quite a lot, and I find it very
useful and easy to use. I have no problems using it
under mod_perl, either.
I think you should perhaps do a bit more reading up on
the subject, try out some OO perl, and see what you think
then. Here are some starting points:
Bless My Referents,
by Damian Conway. You should also take a look at his book,
Object Oriented Perl, which comes highly recommended.
There are some sample chapters
online.
perlboot;
I don't know your level of familiarity w/ OO techniques,
but this is Randal's alternate (as in alternate to perltoot)
intro to OO programming in Perl. | [reply] |
Re: ooperl
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2000 at 06:44 UTC
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I also have found perl to be very easy for creating OO type programs. I don't see how anyone could say "perl wasn't built for object orientation", unless they are using a version perhaps 2 years out-of-date.
Perhaps the real issue here is this programmer's OO skills or a lack of perl familiarity?
Tarkus | [reply] |
Re: ooperl
by nickcave25 (Acolyte) on Mar 05, 2000 at 09:32 UTC
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I am hoping (someday) to be an expert in OOPerl. One really good Perl book I'm reading right now (and I just noticed that btrott refers to it in one of the posts above)
is _Object Oriented Perl_.
Here's a link to its official website:
http://www.manning.com/Conway/index.html
It comes very well recommended by the usual Perl luminaries. I have read the first two chapters and so far I am impressed by how well it is written and how (relatively) easy it is to follow.
http://www.manning.com/Conway/index.html | [reply]
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Re: ooperl
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 05, 2000 at 21:07 UTC
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Uhhhhh, after I have read the Object Oriented Perl book, I wish that there is some UML modeler that will let me customize the perl OO code generation.. huhu
anyway, my evil perl code is hard to read whether I use the normal or OO style coding, for me, I will need some modeler + good source code documentation + good OO design skill along with the OO Perl skill.. all together to ease my perl life :))
Studying/Exploring/Developing/Finding those tools might be the next step that will highlight the usefulness of studying OO Perl.
In the opposite way, if I can find a good perl development tools that will help me with the source code documentation, it may drag my interesting away from OO Perl (e.g like having Siemen 's EasyCODE for Perl.hu hu)
Infer: knowing OO Perl is not the last thing that I have to study for my perl life :D
*uh, what if LabVIEW or IFAD VDM++ can generate OO Perl code!* | [reply] |
Re: ooperl
by damian1301 (Curate) on Dec 02, 2000 at 11:14 UTC
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Perls OO is soooo easy because first of all pod always explains whats going on and plus we have such a huge archive over at cpan.
Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian | [reply] |
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