Badger::Base

Thus Spake Andy:

Badger::Base is a new and improved version of Class::Base which was previously hewn from the living rock of TT. A base class is where you put all your shared functionality that you want all (or most of) your other objects to inherit. The problem is that a base class (and OO inheritance in general) is a blunt instrument. Every time you add something to your base class you're effectively adding it to all modules that inherit from it. This can cause problems if those modules weren't expecting to have a new method suddenly appear from under their feet. This is also one of the reasons why I never made any major changes to Class::Base - because adding a single new method would have affected every module ever written that uses it as a base class. The Badger approach is to keep it clean, lean and mean (very much like Class::Base) and to provide other mechanisms to help with class construction. In summary, OO is broken, but it's the best thing we've got right now.

By the way, Badger::Base works as a base class for all object types, not just those built from hash refs. The new() method creates a hash ref by default, but you can implement your own constructor to create objects built on any other kind of reference. All the other Badger::Base methods Just Work™ regardless of underlying type.