class Foo {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      Bar bar = new Bar(42);
      System.out.println(bar.foo);
      
      Bar baz = bar.Bar(2112);
      System.out.println(baz.foo);
   }

}
class Bar {
   public int foo;
   public Bar(int foo) {
      this.foo = foo;
   }
}

##</code><code>##

class Bar:
   def __init__(self, foo):
      self.foo = foo 

bar = Bar(42)
print bar.foo

baz = bar.__init__(2112)
print baz.foo

##</code><code>##

class Bar
   def kind=(f)
      @foo = f
   end
   def kind
      @foo
   end
end

bar = Bar.new
bar.kind = 42
print bar.kind

baz = bar.new
baz.kind = 2112
print baz.kind

##</code><code>##

class User;
my ($id, $name, $email);
# look ma, no new!!!

package main;
my $u = User.new('abw', 'Andy Wardley', 'abw@kfs.org');

##</code><code>##

package foo;
use strict;
use Carp;

sub new {
   my ($class,$id) = @_;
   croak "can't call new as instance method" if ref($class);
   my $self = {
      id => $id || 42,
   };
   return bless $self,$class;
}