[prog] perl interfaces

[Jacinta Richardson]

> Has anyone had any experience of implementing interfaces or abstract 
> classes in perl? I want to be able to define an interface and to get an 
> error at compile time if implementations of that interface fail to define 
> any of the required methods. Is there any recommended way of doing this? 
> Googling turned up the interface.pm module, but it looks pretty new - has 
> anyone used it? Any pitfalls I should know about? Any other solutions I 
> ought to take a look at?

How about Class::Contract?  or Class::Virtually::Abstract?

The interface.pm isn't that new, but might not be that useful.  Compare it
to Class::Contract.  Also consider dropping Scott a note asking him where
he is with the module.

	All the best,

		Jacinta


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