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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> wrote: > I've been working on a new OO tutorial for Perl. This is part of a larger > goal for the Perl docs to revise all of the existing OO documentation. > > My new document is available online for review: > > http://urth.org/~autarch/new-pod/html/perlootut.pod.html > http://urth.org/~autarch/new-pod/pod/perlootut.pod Thank you for this, it looks really good. I've been wanting to have this to lead people to for quite some time. Thank you. > To the best of my knowledge, all of these documents date back to the initial > Perl 5 release. No offense intended to Tom or Randal (the authors), but > these documents have become extremely out of date in the intervening 16+ > years. Basically, there's a _lot_ of low-level stuff that folks new to Perl > 5 OO don't need to think about. > > I'd like to remove all of these documents. They no longer reflect modern > Perl 5 OO practice, and I think any newbie reading them will just be > massively confused. I *fully* support this. The current tutorials are confusing and irrelevant to newbies. I feel they are doing more harm than good, and would favor their removal even without this new document. > perlobj - Perl objects > > This is basically reference documentation. This could probably use some > revision, but we obviously still want a reference. Agreed. Actually I think some parts of perltoot's text could be moved there. It's well written, it's just not relevant to someone who just wants to get work done. LeonThread Previous