in reply to Anonymous Hash in Constructor
Indeed, I prefer to define a local variable in my constructor, to use that to initialize the structure as need-be, bless it, and then return it. It’s simply that particular author’s habit or perhaps meant in the name of editorial clarity.
The single most-important idea that “you really need to grok, and grok thoroughly,” is that all-important notion of what bless actually does.
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