4.4. A Quick Introduction To Object-Oriented Programming
There is no way to avoid it—we have to talk about object-oriented programming (OOP) using Perl. Object-oriented programming is not a big deal though; it is just a way to give an object (a thing) actions (behaviors, also known as methods). Let’s say we have an object named $car. We can drive the car by executing that object’s drive() method, using the nifty arrow notation: $car->drive(). Easy, eh? Well, of course it is not so easy, so we suggest that if you want an excellent discussion of all things OOP in Perl, see Objected-Oriented Perl [Conway 99].
Most of the time, when we do OOP in Perl, we will use objects that others have defined. In Chapter 7, when we learn how to do CGI programming ...
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