Hi, I think you have a typo and an inefficiency in there. The bless line should be...

    bless $self, $class;

... or if you want objects to be able to spawn like objects...

    bless $self, ref($class) || $class;

The ineffieciency comes from rolling the %args hash twice. It would be a little swifter if new looked like this instead... 

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = { @_ };
  bless $self, $class;
  $self->init();
}

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Lastly, the code counts on the init() sub returning $self, otherwise you'll get an error. That's an interesting choice. My version of init() doesn't, but it's only come up when trying to build a constructor that might return different object types based on the parameters. In that case, I had to override new(). I can see the merits of the alternative, though.

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Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research ― http://www.rectangular.com

In reply to Re^2: Your named arguments by creamygoodness
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