perltoot - Tom's Object-Oriented Tutorial for Perl

perltoot - Tom's Object-Oriented Tutorial for Perl

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This is excellent documentation for Perl Object-Oriented Programming; also known as Camel POOP.

The site is in Russia, but the documentation appears to be entirely in English.

The index of sections are listed below:
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NAME

DESCRIPTION

Creating a Class

o Object Representation
o Class Interface
o Constructors and Instance Methods
o Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
o Destructors
o Other Object Methods

Class Data

o Accessing Class Data
o Debugging Methods
o Class Destructors
o Documenting the Interface

Aggregation

Inheritance

o Overridden Methods
o Multiple Inheritance
o UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects

Alternate Object Representations

o Arrays as Objects
o Closures as Objects

AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods

o Autoloaded Data Methods
o Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods

Metaclassical Tools

o Class::Template
o Data Members as Variables
o NOTES
o Object Terminology