Perl has excellent OO capabilities - even if in the current release (release 5) some elements are a little difficult to learn at first. It supports full multiple inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, static and dynamic methods and everything else you would expect - and many facilities you might not expect such as variable export and virtual methods (via AUTOLOAD). Not every Perl user wants to use objects, so we cover the subject on our "Perl for Larger Projects" course - and on that course we cover not only the mechanisms of Object Orinetation in Perl, but also how they relate to Object Orientation in general ... the principles of which we also cover. This diagram shows how a "package" is a "class", how a "sub" is a "method", and other relationships between standard OO nomenclature and the Perl language.

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Associated topic - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Object Orientation: Design Techniques

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