The Perl Classes Pragma (use classes)

UPDATE: Although perl-classes is alive and still kicking deep in bowels of large enterprise applications I can't recommend anyone start anything new with it these days. There's nothing wrong with it except being written in Perl, which as a language that (in general) has lost a lot of ground in the enterprise application space. I strongly recommend Go for small and enterprise-size behemoth applications of the type for which this module was created long before Go existed. ~ Rob

classes - Conventional Perl 5 classes

A simple, stable, fast, and flexible way to use Perl 5 classes. We're talking one file with no dependencies. No other-object oriented Perl 5 solution offers this much power with this portability and stability. Unlike others, classes does not depend on 50% of CPAN. In fact, it depends on none of it, but has implemented the best within its one file (I guess I don't get tired of typing that.)

Perl classes is the foundation for thousands of lines of enterprise applications running on more than 50,000 Windows, Unix, and Linux machines and has been used as the basis for complicated network protocol implementations and brokering terabytes of enterprise data.

If you need OO in Perl, give classes a look.

Installation

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Requirements

While the classes pragma itself has no requirements nor dependencies it does use the following for debugging and testing:

• Data::Dumper
• Scalar::Util
• Test::More

Support and Documentation

* `perldoc classes`
    Syntax reference

* `perldoc classesoop`

    Introductory primer of concepts, ideas and terms from object
    oriented programming without any particular implementation
    specifics in mind

* `perldoc classesfaq`

    Questions and answers about support, design decisions,
    justification, motivation, and other hype.

Copyright and License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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