How would I go about creating a module that uses both OO and functional interfaces?

I tend to supply named arguments, and I get an error warning that there is an odd number of arguments in a hash assignment if I use a subroutine expecting $self as it's first argument.

I wouldn't think checking that the first argument is a reference is a solution - making pass-by-reference awkward is a Bad Thing :)

Below is a sample of _rough_ code that will only work as OO - how can it be transformed to work as a functional or OO module (like CGI.pm, for example - which I can't figure out :-) ).

package Foo;
# use Modules;
# set up @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK etc for functional interface

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = {};
  bless ($self, $class);
}

sub print_args {
  my $self = shift;
  my %args = @_;

  print $args{'foo'}, $args{'bar'}, "\n";
}

package Bar;

$obj = Foo->new();
$obj->Foo::print_args(foo => "Perl", bar => "Monks");
exit;

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Cheers.

BazB

In reply to Creating modules with OO and functional interfaces. by BazB

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