$class->SUPER::new(%params);
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Okay point taken. However this business with '$self' is truly not something that ought to be mandated across all projects, because while it may be a common idiom in the Perl community (most likely due to the nice phrase 'my $self'), for those of us that work in multiple OO languages it is not the norm. I routinely have to switch between the two, and from experience I declare: it's no big whoop.