Re: on Perl

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:59:06 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:04:57 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

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Perl has had support for object-oriented programming (with multiple
inheritance) for many years -- too many for me to remember.

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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.