Hello friends!

I'm working on several Perl modules that make life much easier with Ming-Perl. Ming creates SWF, and can do so dynamically via CGI. It's awesome!
Now, I love OO, and not suprisingly I use it extensively with my project. But to tell you the truth the length of this syntax really bugs me when it comes to GUI design: (in which you hand code it many times)

$b = Foo::Button->new(@args);

Why not use ,

$b = newButton(@args);

Also considering the overall module network's design (on inheritance for example), I came up with this: 
package Foo::Button;

use strict;
require Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw (newButton);

##  short hand method that feeds some initial data to
## the constructor new()
sub newButton {
    
   __PACKAGE__->new( {Up=>shift} );
}

## Class call only
sub new {
 
 my $class = shift;   
 
 my $self = {};
 bless $self,$class;
 
 $self->{shape} = shift;
 ## fill up some other fields, then return
 
 $self;
}

1;

## in file test.pl
package main;

use Foo::Button;

my $b = newButton(@args);

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Usually I use methods like "newButton" as short hand constructors in which the blessing is left to the perfectly healty new() constructor. (Let's also suppose that the exported class method does the blessing. )
Now, do you think this is a wrong approach? Can it be improved? Any better ways?
Any feedback is appreciated!

Ogla

In reply to Foo::Button->new vs. newButton() by bakunin

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