Advanced Object-Oriented Perl

Damian Conway

Wednesday, 1:30 PM in McConomy.

This tutorial will show you how to build on the basic object-oriented Perl techniques you already know and unlock
more of the power of Perl's OO capabilities.

You will learn:

• how to use pseudo-hashes and the standard fields.pm and base.pm modules;
• three different ways to implement data hiding for Perl objects (including the Tie::SecureHash module);
• how Perl implements inheritance and polymorphism (and how you can change the rules of either);
• the features (and traps) of operator overloading in Perl;
• several ways to do generic programming in Perl.

• Session 1:
• Revision of Perl OO basics
• Non-hash-based objects
• Pseudo-hash objects
• Encapsulation
• Session 2:
• Inheritance tricks and traps
• Operator overloading
• Polymorphism and multimorphism
• Generic programming

Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.  He is the author of numerous well-known modules including: Parse::RecDescent, Text::Balanced,  Lingua::EN::Inflect, Class::Multimethods, and Coy (all available from your local CPAN mirror).  Damian was the winner of both the 1998 and 1999 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference 4.0, the convener of the annual Perl haiku contest, a columnist or The Perl Journal, and author of the book "Object Oriented Perl".
 

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