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in reply to Class::MethodMaker initialization of default values

How about (untested):

package Simple; use Class::MethodMaker get_set => [qw(a b)], new_hash_init => 'hash_init'; sub new { my $pkg = shift; my %args = ( b => "default", @_ ); return $pkg->hash_init(%args); }

-sam