Re: on Perl
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:33:42 -0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc |
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:59:06 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes: >> >> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:04:57 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>> >>> Perl has had support for object-oriented programming (with multiple >>> inheritance) for many years -- too many for me to remember. >> >> Then why this new “class” thing in 5.38? > > It's explained reasonably well at the top of the "perldoc perlclass" > documentation in Perl 5.38: It says there is already supposed to be a mechanism for this, it doesn’t explain why that isn’t good enough.