Just to clarify, Perl is not a procedural language !!!
You can implement any OO features (abstraction,inheritance,polymorphisme etc ...) with 
Perl
http://www.manning.com/Conway/index.html
http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?project=conway&filename=Chapters.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/13/design1.html

Jos�.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:06 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: [OT] Use of Static Methods


--- "Paananen, Tero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OO programs should be made up of objects passing
> > messages to other objects, not calling global functions.
> 
> I would argue a Singleton is no better in this respect.
> 
> The fact that they're instantiated into an object,
> don't make Singletons any less "global" than static
> methods.

They are instantiated into objects which means you can change the specific type, 
method implementations, etc. without the app knowing instead of calling a global 
function.  If I wanted to do procedural programming I'd be using Perl, not Java.

David


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