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
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.