Class::spiffy is a framework and methodology for doing object oriented programming in perl. class::spiffy combines the best parts of exporter.pm, base.pm, mixin.pm and super.pm into one magic foundation class. it attempts to fix all the nits and warts of traditional perl oo, in a clean, straightforward and (perhaps someday) standard way.

class::spiffy borrows ideas from other oo languages like python, ruby, java and perl 6. it also adds a few tricks of its own.

if you take a look on cpan, there are a ton of oo related modules. when starting a new project, you need to pick the set of modules that makes most sense, and then you need to use those modules in each of your classes. class::spiffy, on the other hand, has everything you'll probably need in one module, and you only need to use it once in one of your classes. if you make class::spiffy the base class of the basest class in your project, class::spiffy will automatically pass all of its magic to all of your subclasses. you may eventually forget that you're even using it!

the most striking difference between class::spiffy and other perl object oriented base classes, is that it has the ability to export things. if you create a subclass of class::spiffy, all the things that class::spiffy exports will automatically be exported by your subclass, in addition to any more things that you want to export. and if someone creates a subclass of your subclass, all of those things will be exported automatically, and so on. think of it as "inherited exportation", and it uses the familiar exporter.pm specification syntax.