Object Oriented Perl

Welcome to Perl Training Australia’s Object Oriented Perl training course. This is a two-day module in which we will cover object oriented programming concepts in Perl. Course outline • Object oriented refresher • What are packaged and modules • How to write packages and modules • A first Perl object • Using this knowledge • Passing arguments by name • Class methods and variables • Destructors • Inheritance • Redispatching method calls • Abstract classes • Polymorphism • Using this knowledge • Operator overloading Assumed knowledge This training module assumes the following prior knowledge and skills: • Thorough understanding of operators and functions, conditional constructs, subroutines and basic regular expressions in Perl. • Thorough understanding of arrays, scalars and hashes in Perl. • Thorough understanding of references and complex data structures in Perl. Module objectives • Understand basic concepts of object oriented programming in Perl. • Understand how to write and use modules and packages. • Be able to write basic classes and class methods. • Understand how and when to write destructor functions. • Understand inheritance and multiple inheritance and how to handle the issues these create. • Be able to use the NEXT pseudo-class to assist in cases of multiple inheritance. • Understand polymorphism. • Understand and be able to overload operators in useful manners.