(jeffa) 3Re: using return to create a module object

You should get out of the habit of unnecessarily quoting variables - it is bad habit. Here are a couple of corrections:

my %snmp_options = (
   hostname    => $args->{h},
   retries     => $retries,
   # etc
);

# and 
$snmp_options{username} = $snmp_username;
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Sure, using quotes works for those examples, but it is unnecessary and will one day lead to something like:

package My::CGI;

use strict;
use CGI;

sub new {
   my $class = shift;
   my $foo   = 'bar';
   my $q     = CGI->new();
   my $self = {
      foo => "$foo",
      cgi => "$q",
   };
   return bless $self, $class;
}

package main;

use strict;

my $q = My::CGI->new();

print $q->{foo}, "\n";
print $q->{cgi}->a({href=>'http://foo.bar'},'some link'),"\n";

__END__
yields:
bar
Can't locate object method "a" via package "CGI=HASH(0x80f8a20)"
at ./foo.pl line 26.
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Whoops! What happened? You literalized a reference. Try this code out, then go back and remove the unnecessary quotes inside the $self hash ref.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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