Hmm. Seems to me that the purpose of new is to create an object. I would expect any object creation that failed would throw an exception, so I would think that the previously suggested: 

my $obj = eval { Class->new($whatever) };
if (not $obj) {
 do_something_else();
}

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would be the way to go. Obviously, there are different opinions, or this question would not have arisen.

Another possibility would be to define another class method, say maybe_create(), which would wrap up an eval'd new(). That way you could have your optional object creation without violating the sanctity of the "new() returns an object or dies" idea.

In reply to Re: Moose: return null object by thargas
in thread Moose: return null object by halfcountplus

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