Re: Do I *have* to use 'OOP' to use modules?

"Abigail" <abigail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Arved Sandstrom (asandstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on MMMMDCCCXXVII
September MCMXCIII in <URL:w6D7h.11870$gy2.6058@edtnps90">news:w6D7h.11870$gy2.6058@edtnps90>:
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() I'd be interested to hear why you think OO Perl is not worth bothering
with.


OOP doesn't have object attributes natively. The programmer has to
build this him/herself.

And that's the root of evilness in Perls OO.

I cringe a bit when the term "native" comes up, because it means so many
different things in programming. But I will assume that by "native" object
attributes you mean that there is a way, in the language, of syntactically
distinguishing the fields of the object that are logical attributes from
those that are not (and are just implementation details).

In other words, how much built-in support is there in the language for
encapsulation. Which in turn leads to so much else in OOP.

Am I reading you correctly?

AHS


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