Class::HPLOO is an easier way to declare classes on Perl, based in the popular class {...} style and ePod.

USAGE

use Class::HPLOO ;

class Foo extends Bar , Baz {

use LWP::Simple qw(get) ; ## import the method get() to this package.

attr ( array foo_list , int age , string name , foo ) ## define attributes.

vars ($GLOBAL_VAR) ; ## same as: use vars qw($GLOBAL_VAR);

my ($local_var) ;

## constructor/initializer:
sub Foo {
$this->{attr} = $_[0] ;
}

## methods with input variables declared:
sub get_pages ($base , @pages , %options) {
my @htmls ;

if ( $options{proxy} ) { ... }

foreach my $pages_i ( @pages ) {
my $url = "$base/$pages_i" ;
my $html = get($url) ;
push(@htmls , $html) ;
$this->cache($url , $html) ;
}

return @htmls ;
}

## methos like a normal Perl sub:
sub cache {
my ( $url , $html ) = @_ ;
$this->{CACHE}{$url} = $html ;
}

sub attributes_example {
$this->set_foo_list(qw(a b c d e f)) ;
my @l = $this->get_foo_list ;

$this->set_age(30) ;
$this->set_name("Joe") ;
$this->set_foo( time() ) ;
print "NAME: ". $this->get_name ."n" ;
print "AGE: ". $this->get_age ."n" ;
print "FOO: ". $this->get_foo ."n" ;
}

}

## Example of use of the class:

package main ;

my $foo = new Foo(123) ;
$foo->get_pages(http://www.perlmonks.com/, [/index.pl,/foo] , {proxy => localhost:8080}) ;