Perl Security: 6. When using objects, remember...
Living with a patchy object implementation

When Perl 5 was introduced, many very important changes were introduced - maybe the most important one was that objects were finally supported

But... Being strict to the general definitions of objects, Perl's implementation was...

Incomplete - No private nothing. (Larry's famouse house and trust parallel)

Unnatural - It feels patchy. It feels it forcefully designed its way in.

You can live perfectly programming with objects in Perl. To learn them:

Travel two days back in time, and attend Bouman's fine OO introductory tutorial ;-)

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