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6 Mo - Micro Objects. Mo is less.
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9 package Less;
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16 use Mo. Mo is less. Much less.
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18 Moose is huge. Moose led to Mouse led to Moo led to Mo. M is nothing.
19 Mo is more. Not much.
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21 When Moo is more than you need, drop an 'o' and get some Mo.
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23 To get just a little Mo from Mo, use "Mo Features" below.
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26 This is what you get. Nothing Mo.
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28 "new" method
29 Mo provides a "new" object constructor. You pass it a list of
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36 Mo exports the "extends" keyword, to declare your parent class.
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43 Mo exports a "has" keyword, to generate accessors.
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59 Mo is tiny. It is compressed into a single line. You can easily
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64 Mo is the bare minimum needed for Perl OO. Many times you'll want just
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78 Mo simply loads the feature classes Mo::build, Mo::default,
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81 "has". A Mo::Feature module can enhance "new", "extends" and "has", and
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84 the features and for an explanation of the Feature API..
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99 Damien 'dams' Krotkine <dams@cpan.org>
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101 Matt S. Trout (mst) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
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105 Alessandro Ranellucci (aar/alexrj) <aar@cpan.org>
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