The following is a fairly typical example of a simple constructor for the Stuff class:

  package Stuff;
 
  sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my %args  = @_;
    bless {
      fooAttr => $args{foo},
      barAttr => $args{bar},
    }, $class;
  }

  1;

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If you bless the attribute hash into 'Stuff' rather than $class, a subclass of Stuff (say Junk) which calls the super-class's constructor will be blessed into the Stuff package instead of the Junk package.

If Junk adds/overrides any methods, they won't be called.

Another problem is that it's much harder to maintain a class if the classname is sprayed all over its constituent modules.

-David

In reply to Re: Package Name and Inheritance by erroneousBollock
in thread Package Name and Inheritance by hashin_p

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