On 8/28/00 2:35 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> Object-oriented features were added to Perl with version 5, and in many
>> ways still appear somewhat "tacked on", with perhaps undue respect
>> for the Old Ways of Perl 4.
>
> [NB: This is not a serious missive.]
>
> Hey, that Perl uses packages for classes, subroutines for methods, and
> references for objects is in fact a shining examplar of that holy
> grail of OO -- "code reuse". :-)
I think I'll leave an analysis of the actual state of code reuse inside
perl to the -internals folks... ;)
-John
