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Really like that analogy.. explains it very clearly (which can often be difficult, especially when describing the situation to people who come from a Java (etc.) background).

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Re^3: Perl Privvies
by xdg (Monsignor) on Jul 17, 2006 at 10:16 UTC

    Thank you. I spent a while trying to come up with an analogy that didn't involve shotguns and living rooms or whatever is the commonly-cited analogy for encapsulation. That one never really made a lot of sense to me.

    -xdg

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