in reply to Please Explain This Constructor

Regarding the keys question comment in the code, keys %default_fields returns the keys of %default fields. perldoc -f keys

By the way, when posting, it would be helpful to include all your questions outside of your code, not just in comments inline.

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Re^2: Please Explain This Constructor
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 10, 2006 at 22:12 UTC

    Or at least delineate the comments from the code better; say . . . 

    ##
## I don't understand x about the following line . . .
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evil_code_goes_here( . . . )

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    As is they don't really stand out from the code proper.

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