SPUG: Unidentified Flying Objects

[Andrew Sweger]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Fred Morris wrote:

> So I am going to try to explain this, and then at the end there is a little
> standalone Perl script which runs and demonstrates just how easy it is to
> change the class of an object in midair using Perl.

Way back in 1999, a mild mannered coworker demonstrated a script that
would use the Perl class name as a kind of state attribute as it managed a
huge pool of flying objects. My only response was, "That is so cool! And
sick."

Somehow it seems to defeat the purpose of the academic OO model. But
that's just because I can't think of a practical example of where this
technique would actually be helpful to understanding the solution to a
problem.

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