Object oriented Perl6?

2000-08-02 Thread ye, wei
I'm interested in how OO Perl 6 will be. It's very hard to develop big project in a language without OO support, so I think OO should be a very important part of Perl6. Currently alot of languages support OO very well, e.g. C++/Java/Python/JavaScript. I know that Perl6 will support OO in kernel,

Re: Object oriented Perl6?

2000-08-02 Thread Jeremy Howard
wei ye wrote: I'm interested in how OO Perl 6 will be. It's very hard to develop big project in a language without OO support, so I think OO should be a very important part of Perl6. Perl 5 supports OO quite well. Read the docs by typing 'perldoc section' where section is one of:

Re: Object oriented Perl6?

2000-08-02 Thread Damian Conway
Also read Damien Conway's "Object Oriented Perl" if you want to go further. Unlike the famous title by Hesse, in this case that would be spelled DamiAn, actually. :-) Yes, I'm named after a leper, not the AntiChrist ;-) I think I can with safely predict that sixth

Re: Object oriented Perl6?

2000-08-02 Thread Matthew Persico
Tom Christiansen wrote: [snip] It's certainly a myth than "big projects" *can't* be developed without OO. Well, unless you consider an operating system, a programming language, or an editor to be small projects--and I for one do not. OO can help, sure, but not a trifle as much as can a