in reply to Re: Does this ctor make sense?
in thread Does this ctor make sense?

No, I'm not talking about the package. I know the Package can be omitted. I'm just not sure whether the returned blessed Hash reference is the same thing with the object returned by bless, which should be the return value of new.

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Re^3: Does this ctor make sense?
by NetWallah (Canon) on Jan 15, 2013 at 16:51 UTC
    If I understand your question right, you are asking about something like this: 
    my $this = bless $other, "ClassName";

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    and, you want to know if "$this" is the same as "$other".

    From "perldoc -f bless",
       ...it returns the reference for convenience

    So - Yes - it is the same, and No - it is not necessary to capture the returned object from 'bless'.

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      Exactly. Thanks!
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