Simple question - end a raw string with a single backslash ?

[Mladen Gogala]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:44:25 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Mladen Gogala <mgogala at yahoo.com> writes:
>>In Perl, there are no classes. 
> 
>   If there are no classes in Perl, then what does
> 
> bless REF,CLASSNAME 
> 
>   do?

bless \$ref will make the given reference a reference to the class. And classes is Perl
are called "modules". However, Perl classes are not the classes in the  real sense. There 
is no inheritance. You can have a similar thing in C: it's called "struct", it can do 
similar things like Perl modules. But C isn't object oriented. Inheritance is an
essential characteristic of object orientation.
There were attempts to turn Perl into OO language with Moose (https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose)
However, Moose is complex, tedious and rarely used. Perl6 is an OO language, but nobody uses 
it. The problem is CPAN and all the Perl5 modules which are not compatible with Perl6 or "Roku"
as it is known.



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Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
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