Dear Monks:

After a few brief years of using objects made possible by other peope's code, and now intensively working to learn how to do that more and more, and beginning to perhaps wrap my head around how to create my own classes which might inherit from other people's work, effectively and efficiently.

I just had to speak up
and say my hat's off to the people
who's code creates the capacity to
bless an object into being.

Behold, a work of art:

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = { %fields, };
  bless $self, $class;
  return $self;
}

[download]
Not of my own making, of course, but one who's magic is beginning to become clear.

And thank you to this community which has created a safe place to ask the questions. Thank you to the janitors who plucked the trolls from the responses when my late night inquiries mistook a => hash assignment for something having to do with performing an object->method. My skin is thick and my intention to learn these tools is undeterred by the folks who'd tell me how much I have yet to learn, instead of simply pointing me to the next thing I was looking for which they had to offer. But it is certainly a pleasure to not be bothered by those distractions as I read the archives available at the ssearch engine.

Its interesting how your reporting of the xp and votes has encouraged me to participate more than I otherwise would if I were simply following google searches in hopes of solid leads. While awaiting answers to the posts of interest to me, I'll puruse other seekers' questions, upvote the ones I learn from and respond to ones I might have something to offer.

I probably should spend more time on my own code, perhaps. But this site has certainly proven a pleasant distraction from staring at unchanging error messages.

-- Hugh

In reply to A work of art by hesco

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