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Perl has a "RISC approach" to OOP, that means you have little brickstones allowing to assemble a multitude of different OO-Models.

e.g you are free to chose the datastructure holding the data of an instance (the ref you are blessing) and you have to gather the $self variable referncing this data and you can use closures to hide various private aspects and so on.

If you simply want to be productive right away try to read the Moose-Tutorial. Moose is one of the more elaborated projects to compose a complex model without you needing to do every single step manually.

But if you want to understand the technique used in various CPAN-Moduls using these basic techniques I recommend Object oriented Perl from Damian Conway

UPDATE: This book will not only teach you the generality of how Perl achieves OOP, but how different the models in different languages can be.

OOP isn't the same in Ruby, Python, JS or JAVA but Perl can simulate all these models.

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re: kind of effort required for learning OO perl ?! by LanX
in thread kind of effort required for learning OO perl ?! by Anonymous Monk

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