I agree. IMHO there's one thing that would help this whole situation: there should be a default, modern, easy to use OO framework/library that's recommended for serious work by the majority of "the perl/OO community" (if there is one).
Something that:
- Can subclass any other class that's using bless() the right way with any reference type. (I.e. it should use the inside-out fields technique)
- works with threads (and fork() emulation on windows) - won't use reference addresses to index fields.
- works with threads::shared - allows you to share objects across threads with minimal fuss.
- works with XS extensions and allows for easy mixed perl/XS classes/hierarchies.
The only thing I can think of is Object::InsideOut, though it could use a simple tutorial, some XS helper functions and possibly a less cluttered interface. Other suggestions are welcome.
If the community can decide on some default library like that, it should be put in the core.
I know the tendency is to keep as much as possible out of the core, but a default good OO layer (i.e. not Class::Struct) is just plain needed to be able to write good OO perl. It really is too much work to write reliable OO perl without using external modules.
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