Re: Creating new objects from within a package

Just to second herveus, indirect method calls ( meth class() ) are, in general, funky and unsupported. You should probably be using class->meth() instead, as that leaves no ambiguities.

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Re^2: Creating new objects from within a package by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2004 at 14:47 UTC
I wouldn't go so far as to say they are unsupported, however there are certainly issues of disambiguation as the OP has seen /J\	[reply]
Re^3: Creating new objects from within a package by tye (Sage) on Jul 21, 2004 at 14:56 UTC
Neither does it "leaves no ambiguities". T->new() can still be ambiguous, it is just not as ambiguous. If you want to leave no ambiguities, write 'T'->new(). - tye	[reply]