Well, I still haven't released this revision :-/ but I ended up with (years ago) 
sub new {
  local $_;
  my $proto = shift;
  my($class, @isect, %count);
  my %class = (
               -f => 'Font',
               -C => 'Control'
               );

  $count{$_}++ for (keys %{ {@_} }, keys %class);
  $count{$_} == 2 && push(@isect, $_) for keys %count;
  
  croak("Cannot new both -C and -f") if scalar @isect > 1;

  $class = shift(@isect) || '-f';
  $class = 'Text::FIGlet::' . $class{$class};
  $class->new(@_);
}

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In reply to Re: OO semantics quandary by belg4mit
in thread OO semantics quandary by belg4mit

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