Re^3: Why you shouldn't use the Indirect notation with AUTOLOAD

I always assumed that it was because of C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript/ECMAScript and VB. These languages (and more, I'm sure) all use new as a keyword. With so many languages constructing objects as new Foo it's no wonder why many do it in Perl. I look at it as yet another example of how perl's flexability allows people to program in a way comfortable to them.

Ted Young

($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)

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Re^4: Why you shouldn't use the Indirect notation with AUTOLOAD by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 28, 2005 at 19:06 UTC
Yet, that way provides for bugs, precisely because new isn't a keyword. Larry has said that he meant it as a migration aid, not as a syntax. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]

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Re^4: Why you shouldn't use the Indirect notation with AUTOLOAD
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 28, 2005 at 19:06 UTC

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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