How best to learn OO Perl?

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Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by jdtoronto (Prior) on Jun 30, 2006 at 12:05 UTC
Try perltoot, but you will find the best references are some books, I personally like "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway thedamian. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl? by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2006 at 15:58 UTC
Perl Training Australia also provides excellent course notes on same. :-) HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl? by albert (Monk) on Jun 30, 2006 at 12:27 UTC
I'll second the recommendation for Damian's book. It is the best book covering this topic, IMHO. -albert	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2006 at 12:26 UTC
I like perlboot. -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by derby (Abbot) on Jun 30, 2006 at 12:21 UTC
You can start with the Object Oriented Perl section in [id://Tutorials]. -derby update: Almost forgot Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules by merlyn.	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by borisz (Canon) on Jun 30, 2006 at 12:24 UTC
perldesignpatterns.com is a good resource. Boris	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 30, 2006 at 16:30 UTC
There's always Intermediate Perl, which approaches objects in the middle of learning how to write larger programs. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl? by jdtoronto (Prior) on Jul 01, 2006 at 01:35 UTC
Well, "Intermediate Perl" is not one of my favourites sadly merlyn, I am glad you didn't mention "Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules"! Whilst I like your columns I have found that one in particular difficult to follow. However, "Learning Perl" is never far away, it is on the shelf right behind me. I taught myself OOPerl from "learning Perl Objects" but didn't understand it and become comfortable with it until "Object Oriented Perl", I am also a fan of "Perl Best Practices" ( thedamian ) and "Higher Order Perl" ( dominus ). But why does nobody mention "Effective Perl Programming" (Hall and Schwarz 1998), it is still a handy reference with some good ideas, and the 20 pages on Object Oriented Programming forms a conconcise introduction to the topic. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl? by TStanley (Canon) on Jul 01, 2006 at 01:12 UTC
And the fact that you're one of the authors isn't influencing your recommendation :-) Jokes aside, I would second merlyn's reccomendation of his book as a good way to learn OO Perl, followed by Damian's OO Perl book, which goes into a lot more detail TStanley -------- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that “nothing is worth war” is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by swampyankee (Parson) on Jun 30, 2006 at 16:09 UTC
I will add my vote to jdtoronto's and albert's votes for Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl. emc e^(π√−1) = −1	[reply]
Re: How best to learn OO Perl? by nothingmuch (Priest) on Jul 03, 2006 at 00:47 UTC
You can look at Moose, which makes OO writing pretty easy. A class is declared as: `package Class::Name;` [download] a package is a symbol table namespace, in which symbols are stored. Every class has it's own package which it lives in. Constructors are anything which calls bless, you should read perltoot to get a handle on that, but if you want to ignore that Moose will provide a default constructor named `new` for you. Every class gets `DESTROY` called right before it's garbage collected. You can hook to that. C<Moose> let's you specify `sub DEMOLISH` which does not have to call the super class's destructors. Inheritence is controlled with the special variable `@ISA` in every package, which contains a list of base classes. YOu can use the `extends` keyword in Moose to clean that up a bit. Accessors are autogenerated for you when you use attributes, like: `has name => ( is => "rw", # what accessor to generate, can also be wo or ro );` [download] I don't know what you mean by contexts - that's a very general term. -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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