"We're determined to have improved OO syntax in a future release, and we'd love that to be v8, but we don't want to hold up this plan because OO needs time to mature."
I wonder what this means. Especially if signatures are on by default, the OO syntax is pretty straightforward already, with most boilerplate gone. Like:
package Some::Object {
sub new ( $class, $args = {} ) {
bless $args, $class;
}
}