in reply to What means: "bless { @_ } => $class;"?

B::Deparse can be useful in situations like this.

$ perl -MO=Deparse -e 'sub new { my $class = shift; bless { @_ } => $c
+lass; }'
sub new {
    my $class = shift @_;
    bless {@_}, $class;
}
-e syntax OK

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