I have a class that subclasses a base class with a custom constructor object.

My problem lay in that I want to share an generic init function (_init) called from new that will process common arguments passed to the constructor. Passing the args in @_ is easy to do - i'm just trying to figure out the best way to do it, and I'm unsure of how perl treats @_.

Should I devise a way to reference/de-reference @_ when it is passed/accessed? Is that completely unnecessary? I doubt I will be tossing large amounts of data around, but in the case that I do, I don't want to be needlessly copying variables all over when a simple reference will do.

Perhaps this will explain things better: 
package Framework::myPackage ;
sub _init
{
my $this = shift; # shift off the ref in $_[0] so we can access the pa
+rams as @_
my %param = @_;
#or my %param = $@_; # do i want something like that (i know thats not
+ real perl)
}

package MyApp::myPackage ;
sub new
{
 ...
 $this->_init( @_ );
 #or  $this->_init( \@_ ); #?
}

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In reply to forwarding arguments to a constructor to a new function by nmerriweather

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