Greetings.
I do this kind of things thusly:

package Foo;

my %DEFAULTS= (
   NAME=>'',
   USERNAME=>'',
);


sub new {
 my($pkg,%rest)=(@_);

  if(ref($pkg)) {
    #called as $instance->new()
    #do something about this. 
    ;
  }
  # Checks, maybe? and other stuff.
  # this overwrites the stuff in %DEFAULTS with the stuff in
  # in %rest, if applicable.
  bless { (%DEFAULTS,%rest) }, $pkg;
  
}
##
#Main
##
my $foo=Foo->new(); # gets blank NAME, USERNAME
my $bar=Foo->new(NAME=>'bar', USERNAME=>'baz');

print STDOUT "Your mileage WILL vary\n";

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Cheers
alf

In reply to Re: OO Perl: calling a constructor within a class by alien_life_form
in thread OO Perl: calling a constructor within a class by fx

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