I find it's easy to make a method like that as long as you're importing hash-style parameters. For example: 
sub new
{
     my $class = shift;

     my $self = { @_ };

     return bless($self, $class);
}

# ...

my $test = Foo->new(handle => $dbh);

my $handle = $test->{handle};

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If you're paranoid about what kind of data someone's going to pass in, you can always filter it. 
my @imports = qw [ foo bar ];

sub new
{
     my ($class, %params) = @_;

     my %self;
     @self{@imports} = @params{@imports};

     return bless(\%self, $class);
}

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This will restrict parameters to those in the import list. You could extend this to produce errors, of course.

In reply to Re: Initial Variables by tadman
in thread Initial Variables by Angel

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