Laudetur, monks. I'm still learning to use OOP in Perl, as I inherited a small bunch of code.
I've got a class, configContainer. In the contructor there is:
    $commonConfig_tmp->{ 'DAY' } = ${configContainer->getLocalTime}[3]
+;
    $commonConfig_tmp->{ 'MONTH' } = ${configContainer->getLocalTime}[
+4];
    $commonConfig_tmp->{ 'YEAR' } = ${configContainer->getLocalTime}[5
+];

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There is a sub getLocalTime, quite self-explanatory:
sub getLocalTime {
    my @timeData = localtime(time);
    @timeData[5] += 1900; 
    @timeData[4] += 1;
    return \@timeData;

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Now my question is: in the constructor getLocalTime, thus localtime() is called 3 times. I see this as unnecessary, I could assign the values with 1 call. Or am I missing someting concerning objects / constructors? Thank you for your help.
I'm too lazy to be proud of being impatient.

In reply to Redundant function calls in constructor? by nemesdani

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