It's interesting, this is how I write them too. But I noticed
lodin's node, which contains an important but subtle difference; by doing this:
sub field {
my $self = shift;
$self->{field} = $_[0] if @_;
...
}
instead of this:
sub field {
my ($self,$val) = @_;
$self->{field} = $val if defined $val;
...
}
you don't run into issues where
$self->field(undef) would silently return the old value without changing it, which isn't what you might expect. But because I've seen the second form elsewhere and it's technically better practice to assign
@_ to variables I just stuck with it, but clearly the first way is better.
