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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:33:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:59:06 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:04:57 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>
>>> Perl has had support for object-oriented programming (with multiple
>>> inheritance) for many years -- too many for me to remember.
>>
>> Then why this new “class” thing in 5.38?
> 
> It's explained reasonably well at the top of the "perldoc perlclass"
> documentation in Perl 5.38:

It says there is already supposed to be a mechanism for this, it doesn’t 
explain why that isn’t good enough.