Perl's new core OO system offers speed and flexibility. It is evolving carefully to provide a well-thought-out solution. The Object::Pad system is written in Perl and is designed to evolve at the speed of, well, Perl. It provides us the opportunity to try new things, see if they really work, and reject the ones that don't.
The first basic step in using it is coming to terms with defining and constructing objects. This talk starts with a basic class using bless and looks at how to convert it to use O::P and where to go from there in managing the construction process. It's intended as a good place to start for converting code to use the new system or get a feel of where to begin when authoring a new class with it.