PERLBOOT(1perl)

💖 NAME 💖

perlboot — the lil landing page that points you at the actual tea on object-oriented programming in Perl 🫶

okay so bestie, real talk: this page is basically a glow-up era that's already over. It used to be the OO tutorial, and now it's just the cutest little signpost telling you where to go instead. Think of it as a group chat "moved to a new gc" message, except the new gc is iconic. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So you wanna learn about OO programming with Perl? obsessed. That's such a good instinct, no cap. But the docs you want are NOT here anymore, babe — they live in:

• perlootut — the tutorial. Start here if you're new to this whole OO thing 🧚
• perlobj — the reference. Go here when you need the actual facts, the gritty details, all of it 🌸

the way that those two documents literally supersede the tutorial that used to live right here in perlboot. Like, they replaced it. Fully. The old one is retired, it's giving legendary alumni, we still love her but she's not taking new students 💀

So yeah — this page is a redirect in spirit, and honestly? That's its whole vibe. Short, sweet, main character energy, and it knows it. 👑

If you came here hunting for the old tutorial: it's not here. It got superseded. Go read perlootut and perlobj instead and you'll be slaying OO Perl in no time fr fr 🔥

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

ngl there's no formal SEE ALSO section on this one, but the two docs above are the see also, iykyk. perlootut for the tutorial energy, perlobj for the reference energy. That's the whole lineup. 💜

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okay bye bestie, mwah 💋 — this lil page is perlboot, part of the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, sitting pretty in section 1perl, and it's from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17. Slay, go read the real docs now 🌈✨