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Leon Timmermans
Date:
February 28, 2011 14:17
Subject:
Re: Revising Perl's OO docs - a new OO tutorial
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
> I've only had time to briefly skim the document, but if I have to summarize
> the document, it seems to boil down to "Don't do objects yourself. Use
> something that doesn't come with Perl".
>
> Without further judging the content of the document, that just feels wrong.
>
> Not that I have much of a solution though.

I can understand that. I think it feels wrong to everyone, but doing
it all by hand like it's 1997 all over again feels significantly more
wrong. Besides, the right answer to almost anything non-trivial in
Perl is «check CPAN first».

Leon
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