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Class and Methods

Class and Methods

Learn about classes and their methods in Moose.

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Classes

A Moose object is a concrete instance of a class, a template describing data and behavior specific to the object. A class generally belongs to a package, which provides its name:

package Cat {
    use Moose;
}

This Cat class appears to do nothing, but that’s all Moose needs to make a class. We can create objects (or instances) of the Cat class with this syntax:

Perl
package Cat {
    use Moose;
}
my $brad = Cat->new;
my $jack = Cat->new;

In the same way that this arrow operator dereferences a ...