Re: Anonymous Hash in Constructor

[jmlynesjr]

Wouldn't an anonymous hash provide for/enforce encapsulation, a basic OOP concept?

James

Update2:

Thanks for the explanation. As always, I have more reading to do! My thought was that naming the hash would create a symbol table entry that would allow direct access from the outside, not that you would want to or should do that.

[chromatic]

Only if the named hash persists outside of the constructor.

[sundialsvc4]

Which, of course, would not make sense to do.   The constructor’s purpose is to return a new unique instance of a blessed object as its return value.   So, the only “debate” here is whether, within the body of that constructor, the hash that is to be returned is specified anonymously or not.   And, it makes utterly no difference one way or the other to Perl.