Damon, Thanks for such a quick reply. I recently started an internship and am seeing how learning Perl would be a valuable part of my toolset. I am new to OOP (having had some previous Java training) and would like to start out on the right track. I understand the whole dog is a animal and a cat is as well so they share traits that can be modeled in a separate class, I just get tied up when actually trying to work with real world examples. Does the moose page provide an OOP conceptual overview as well; if not does anyone know where to find one?
Thanks, Jeffrey -----Original Message----- From: Damon Allen Davison [mailto:allo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:37 AM To: Pry, Jeffrey Subject: Re: Object Oriented On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Pry, Jeffrey <jeffrey....@sig.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of good resource to learn object oriented Perl? Also, can > Perl be considered truly object oriented? Hi Jeffrey, There are a couple of ways of doing object oriented (OO) programming in Perl. Are you coming from another OO language, or are you trying to learn OO through Perl? If you goal is to write new code, I would recommend having a look at Moose::Manual on CPAN for the most modern approach to OO in Perl. It's also easier to learn and lighter on the typing, as well as being at the core of cool things like the programming framework Catalyst. http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.99/lib/Moose/Manual.pod If you will have to be maintaining OO code that doesn't use Moose, then I recommend the perlboot and perltoot tutorials you can access via perldoc at the command line (perldoc perlboot). If you'd like to buy a book, I think Damian Conway's "Object-Oriented Perl" is the best and most comprehensive text on the topic--just keep in mind that things have moved on a bit since its last revision. His explanations about OO in Perl are written with a view towards understanding OO and then understanding Perl's implementation of OO. http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1/pod/perlboot.pod http://www.manning.com/conway/ There is also Randal Schwartz' "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules", which is targeted at intermediate users of Perl. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781 Perl allows you to choose to write OO code, but unlike some other popular languages, it doesn't force you to write OO code. Perl programmers tend to like to have choices, which can sometimes be confusing to beginners. Best, Damon -- Damon Allen Davison http://allolex.net http://musicindustryrules.com http://thegannet.net IMPORTANT: The information contained in this email and/or its attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Any review, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination of this message or any attachment by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited. Neither this message nor any attachment is intended as or should be construed as an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument. Neither the sender, his or her employer nor any of their respective affiliates makes any warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of any of the information contained herein or that this message or any of its attachments is free of viruses. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
