(crazyinsomniac) Re: Odd constructor in HTML::Template

No deep magic. No superstition. Just "style". It might have something to do with earlier versions of perl (I know nothing of perl4), but nothing to do with mod_perl.

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Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: Odd constructor in HTML::Template by drewcifer (Novice) on Mar 29, 2002 at 13:42 UTC
I believe it has something to do with the scope of the variables and the Authors attempt to force the $hash variable to be truly private. There is a great discussion of this in "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway. If you do not have this book it is a must for any OOP Perl programmer and a great introduction to OOP with Perl.	[reply]
•Re: Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: Odd constructor in HTML::Template by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 29, 2002 at 14:21 UTC
Except that it does nothing of the kind. There's no difference to creating a named lexical and letting it fall out of scope versus creating an anonymous value in the first place. So, perhaps this is vestigial code, left over from a larger cut-n-paste, or this is from someone who didn't quite "get it". In either case, I'd yellow flag this in a formal code review. Meaning I'd let it stand as workable, but if resources were available, bring it in line with more common idioms. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: Odd constructor in HTML::Template by impossiblerobot (Deacon) on Mar 29, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
Definitely not a Perl 4 issue, since it had no references, and therefore no need/use for a `bless()` function. :-) (Not to mention a lack of modules.) Impossible Robot	[reply] [d/l]