I am happy to announce that Class-Prototyped-0.90 has been released. Class::Prototyped provides for fast and full-featured prototype-based OO programming in Perl.
The impetus behind this release was trying to figure out why some of the test suite was failing under Perl v5.8.0. I was happy in the end to discover that the problem was actually in the test suite. In v.5.6.x, lexically scoped variables with the same scoping go out of scope in the order in which they were declared. In v.5.8.0, it appears that they go out of scope in the reverse order (which actually makes a lot more sense). The new test suite addresses this issue by adding additional scopes so that the order in which the variables go out of scope is explicitly defined. In discovering this, however, I decided that the existing destruction behavior was suboptimal, and so the code was modified to improve the behavior and additional test cases were added to verify the code. Ned Konz (NEDKONZ) is no longer the primary maintainer of this module - he has stopped using Perl in favor of Squeak (he is one of the 6 core Squeak developers), and so I have assumed complete responsibility for the module. --Toby Everett TEVERETT
