•Re: Re^7: It's a dog, but what kind? (polymorphism , in Perl OO) (alternative?)

in reply to Re^7: It's a dog, but what kind? (polymorphism , in Perl OO) (alternative?)
in thread It's a dog, but what kind? (polymorphism , in Perl OO)

And tye, back at ya. Did you understand the responses you got to that posting, or the thread in this posting?

The "alternative" is the simple approach:

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = { ... };
  bless $self, $class;
}
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None of the extra cut-n-pasted stuff to make $instance->new do anything in particular, because as I said in my quoted item above, it's wrong to two-thirds of the audience, and therefore is dangerous.

If that's confusing to you, I wish you could say what you're missing in a different way, because I'm not getting it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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