I --'ed your node because it was completely off-topic. The confusion was hash-references vs. loops, not OO constructors. As the OP was confused about basic syntax, bringing up inside-out objects was a bit too much.

Furthermore, inside-out objects is most certainly not the "best way". In fact, many top Perl programmers choose to NOT use Inside-out objects, for a variety of reasons. These would include:

  1. They don't play nicely with Data::Dumper or Storable
  2. They can have memory leaks (even Class::Std can under pathological circumstances)
  3. They are about 10x slower than hash- or array-based objects under average use
  4. Extending the class on the fly is unintuitive
  5. Subclassing can still have bad situations (method-based vs. hashkey-based)

They are nice, but they're not the cure for cancer.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: Help understanding object constructors (by Perl Best Practices book) by dragonchild
in thread Help understanding object constructors by nisha

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