Perl Training Australia - Advanced Object Oriented Perl

Trainer:	Damian Conway
Length:	2 days
Target Audience:	Experienced Perl programmers who have a solid understanding of hash-based OO Perl.

This course will show you how to build on the object-oriented Perl techniques you already know and unlock more of the power of Perl's OO capabilities.

You will learn:

how (and when) to bless arrays and scalars;
three different ways to implement data hiding for Perl objects (including the Tie::SecureHash module);
how Perl implements inheritance and polymorphism (and how you can change the rules of either);
advanced polymorphic programming techniques (including virtual constructors);
advanced method redispatch techniques (especially under multiple inheritance)
how to simulate scalars, arrays, hashes, and typeglobs using ties;
the use of tie-based proxies in OO Perl
the features (and traps) of operator overloading in Perl;
easy ways to build complete classes (semi-)automatically;
how to do design-by-contract programming in OO Perl (using the Class::Contract module);
how to use multiple dispatch (an advanced form of polymorphism )