In Germany, a house will grow in value over the years (perhaps current economic climate excluded) but an Igloo will loose all of its value in summer (it will melt!).

From last week's Perl course, where I briefly covered object orientation in Perl (the course briefing only asked me to cover it briefly), I present
[here] my Igloo and House example - defining classes of house and igloo, and providing different methods to get the value of each type after a number of years.
I also went on to separate out the class(es) from the main code in a further example - the main code is
[here] and the extra classes are
[here]. You'll note that I've inherited all classes from a base class
thing into which I wrote an AUTOLOAD method. That way, I can set and get all my properties (attributes) of all the object types without having to write lots of accessor methods. Perl is REALLY neat, if a trifle unconventional at time!
Illustration - a variety of housing in
Frankfurt ... but none of it is igloos!
(written 2010-06-15)
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[588] Changing @INC - where Perl loads its modules - (2006-02-02)
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[930] -> , >= and => in Perl - (2006-11-18)
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes? - (2007-06-04)
[1320] Perl for Larger Projects - Object Oriented Perl - (2007-08-25)
[1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course - (2007-11-18)
[1664] Example of OO in Perl - (2008-06-03)
[1665] Factory method example - Perl - (2008-06-04)
[1819] Calling base class constructors - (2008-10-03)
[1949] Nuclear Physics comes to our web site - (2008-12-17)
[2427] Operator overloading - redefining addition and other Perl tricks - (2009-09-27)
[2651] Calculation within objects - early, last minute, or cached? - (2010-02-26)
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins - (2010-04-11)
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore - (2010-07-18)
[2972] Some more advanced Perl examples from a recent course - (2010-09-27)
[3097] Making Perl class definitions more conventional and shorter - (2010-12-20)
[3098] Learning Object Orientation in Perl through bananas and perhaps Moose - (2010-12-21)
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[3941] Building an object based on another object in Perl - (2012-12-03)
[4096] Perl design patterns example - (2013-05-20)
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[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages - (2014-12-26)
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