There are some occasions when a new example that I write / a topic that comes up on a course results in an article that's so long that it doesn't fit into the Blog / short article format, but requires a more substantial mechanism.
And so it is for my
First steps in Object Oriented Perl examples, written yesterday and taking you through how you can hold all the data about multiple things ("objects") of a type ("class") in a hash, and then access the data easily in it through Perl subs ("methods"). The example then went on to show you how you can define slightly different types of things and keep them all in the same list, with the program working out at run time which particular piece of code to run ("polymorphism") with the detailed logic or how to deal with the data hidden with ("encapsulated") the file that describes the class ("package / module").
So I'm just giving you a taster here (see the previous paragraph) and I have provided a longer article on
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[2171] Cleaning up redundant objects - (2009-05-11)
[2173] Basic OO principles - (2009-05-11)
[2393] A first demonstration of OO, including polymorphism - (2009-09-04)
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[3436] Moving from scripting to Object Orientation in Python - (2011-09-13)
[3721] Naming blocks of code, structures and Object Orientation - efficient coding in manageable chunks - (2012-05-06)
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[4448] What is the difference between a function and a method? - (2015-03-04)
[4591] From single block to structure and object oriented programming - (2015-12-02)
[4650] Why populate object with values as you construct them? - (2016-02-18)
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[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions - (2006-12-09)
[983] Blessing in Perl / Member variable in Ruby - (2006-12-14)
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[1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course - (2007-11-18)
[1664] Example of OO in Perl - (2008-06-03)
[2169] When should I use OO techniques? - (2009-05-11)
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