The only thing I would worry about is that there is no guarantee that keys or values called on %hash more than once will return them in the same order. And keys %hash and values %hash might not return them in the same order

At least that is what I understood. If I am wrong, please tell me. Or is this something that "works" but isn't "right"?

I would probably (untested)

sub _init {
    my ($self, %initdata) = @_;
    if (%initdata) {
        map { $self{$_} = $initdata{$_} } keys %initdata;
    }
}

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andrew

In reply to Re: Make sense? by afresh1
in thread Make sense? by Anonymous Monk

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