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Chris Prather
Date:
March 7, 2011 12:36
Subject:
Re: Revising Perl's OO docs - a new OO tutorial
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:

> Unfortunally, that's how many people see objects: a bag of attributes. And
> that's the motivation for at least half the "OO frameworks" out there,
> "to save typing on when creating accessors".

It's also the reason that until Moose I hand rolled my classes.

> IMO, Perl already has an excellent datastructure to handle bags of
> variables/attributes. It's called a hash.

I fully agree.

-Chris
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