Hey, I edited that.

I really don't see what advantage __PACKAGE__ has over a hardcoded class name except that it's Pythonesquely uglier.

Alright, I can hear dozens of keyboards getting ready to type "What about inheritance, you dope?" Before you get excited, try this little program:

package Foo;

sub new
{
    bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
}   

package Bar;

use vars qw( @ISA );

@ISA = 'Foo';

package main;

my $bar = Bar->new();
print "Bar is a ", ref $bar, "\n";

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Yep, the package into which it's compiled. Nope, not all that useful. Pity.

Update: Okay, if you don't like hardcoding the class name, there's an advantage. The Class module gets rid of the ugliness. That's kinda useful.

In reply to Re: Re: if (UNIVERSAL::isa($r, ref $l)) by chromatic
in thread if (UNIVERSAL::isa($r, ref $l)) by hossman

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