I differ in my tastes from davorg. Instead I, like
merlyn, prefer to keep instance and class methods
separate. His opinion is stated more strongly
than mine would be, but I would still make new your basic
constructor, give your complex constructor from an existing
object a more descriptive name, then just call new from
within the more complex constructor. Something like this
silly little example:
sub copy {
my $self = shift;
my $copy = ref($self)->new(%$self, @_);
# Do stuff
return $copy;
}
sub new {
my $class = shift;
return bless ({
NAME => '',
USERNAME => '',
# etc
@_ # allows overriding defaults in the constructor :-)
}, $class);
}
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