Re: Perl Object Initilization

[rev_1318]

Something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

package Test;

sub new {
    my ($class, @args) = @_;

    my $self = {};
    bless $self, $class;

    $self->init(@args);

    return $self;
}

sub init {
    my ($self, @args) = @_;

    %$self = (
        a => 10,
        b => 20,
        @args,
    );

    return $self;
}

package main;

my $test1 = Test->new();
print "$test1->{a}\n";

my $test2 = Test->new(a => 40);
print "$test2->{a}\n";

init sets defaults, which you can override with your values...