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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
March 3, 2011 11:26
Subject:
Re: Revising Perl's OO docs - a new OO tutorial
Message ID:
14270.1299180385@chthon
>> It feels wrong because it *is* wrong.  You cannot tell people,
>> beginners especially, that they cannot use the Perl that came
>> with their distribution for OO programming.
>>
>> That is not acceptable.

> I agree. But I have a hunch that our assessment of the optimal
> solution to this might be very different.

I doubt it.  :)

I am betting that the "optimal" solution is to import some 'mungous CPAN
framework into the core distribution, trade TMTOWTDI in for TOOWTDI, and 
tell people that this is now *THE* way that Thou Shalt Do Objects in Perl.

Are we ready to do that?  

Ok.

--tom
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