Re: problams with IO::Socket::INET
Tom Christiansen (tchrist@jhereg.perl.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:11:11 -0700
>Perl does not _HAVE_ constructors. There is a popular pretense at
>having objects which happens to be documented in the core
>distribution. That pretense advocates the use of the same routine to
>allocate and to initialize objects.
> Implementation of objects and interfaces to objects are different things.
> In C++/Java, the allocation is hidden from the class author. In perl,
> the author of the class must allocate the object themselves.
>No. In Perl, the author who believes the documentation is fooled into
>believeing that, but it isnt necessarilly true.
Considering that it's my writing you're referring to, I feel as though
you've just called me a liar or an idiot. I'm not partial to either
one of those, especially spewed up my someone who can't be bothered to
run a spell checker.
So, very quickly and politely, explain your rant or go to the
killfile list forever.
--tom