[oak perl] Review of Ruby Pocket Reference

[Quinn Weaver]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:58:23AM -0700, Steve K wrote:

> PS: I'm thinking about making Moose my favorite Perl module.  It
> implements perl objects with a clean new syntax that hides the instance
> hashes and reference/dereference fog generators.     Hard as heck to get
> it installed, but very pleasing one you get it in.

I have similar love for Object::InsideOut (except that it's easy to install).
It lets you declaratively declare the members of your class, and auto-
generates accessors, modifiers, and a constructor (with hashref "named args").
Similarly, it lets you declare the required and optional args to your
methods--even their types or regexes--and checks them at run-time.
It does all this using :attributes that you stick on your methods/variables--
not source filters.  And it's thread-safe.  Definitely worth checking out.

It's sad that we're even discussing the myriad ways to do objects with Perl,
but, IMO, Object::InsideOut has finally nailed the problem.

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