Because a common idiom used to "solve" the "class or object method?" question, can lead to odd behavior when a constructor is called as a function and not a method.

I disagree:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Test::More tests => 2;

package Foo;

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

sub test
{
    1;
}

package Bar;

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

sub test
{
    1;
}

package main;

sub test
{
    0;
}

my $foo = Foo::new();
ok( $foo->test() );

my $bar = Bar::new();
ok( $bar->test() );
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That's the same behavior regardless of the "class or object?" check. This leads me to conclude that that check has no bearing on the behavior. What leads you to believe otherwise?

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