Monks, In reading the Perl OO tutorial perltooc I noted this code in the Indirect References to Class Data section: 
    package Some_Class;
    our($CData1, $CData2);
    sub new {
        my $obclass = shift;
        return bless my $self = {
            ObData1 => "",
            ObData2 => "",
            CData1  => \$CData1,
            CData2  => \$CData2,
        } => (ref $obclass || $obclass);
    }

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My question is about the use of the => comma like operator.

Why? 

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

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seems to work just as well.

Does anyone know of any reason why => might be used in place of , in this instance?

Interestingly, this has let to a clarification on the meaning of => for me.

I had always assumed that => stringifies its left operand, but a little testing, seems to indicate it only actually stringifies if it thinks the left operand is a word... i.e. not a $var - subtle!

Regards,

Jeff

In reply to bless with => separated args by jaa

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