and I'm even optimistic that such could be done for Perl 5. But, for now, a good approach is something like: 

use Data::Heap::Whatever 1.1 ( \my $Heap

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That reference constructor there is a nit for me. Why should the user be required to provide it? There is no functional reason that it is needed. The import routine should get an alias to the whatever was passed in so I cant really see a reason for it.

Sorry, but I've encountered this design choice a lot (DBI does it somewhere iirc) and it always kind of irritates me as it seems to me to be so unperlish.

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

In reply to Re^2: Getting rid of "new" (superfluous reference constructor)-- by demerphq
in thread Getting rid of "new" by xdg

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