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Why should the constructor be called new and not New?

Is it preferred to have methods in lower case? Or is it because 'new' is a constructor and so the convention is to put it in lower case?

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Re^3: Configuration Question
by TomDLux (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2010 at 20:15 UTC

    Perl Best Practices describes some excellent ideas (and also contains some crud, so don't believe everything, just because it's in print ).

    • Use lower case for subroutines, methods, variables and labelled arguments.
    • Use Mixed-Case for package and class names.
    • User UPPERCASE for constants.

    But as far as your example is concerned, you hardcode sandbox to 0, then test whether it's 1, which of course it isn't. Maybe some user input would be good. It would be better to find a means to connect which doesn't involve passwords at all. Or if you need one, have it supplied on the command line?

    As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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Re^3: Configuration Question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 30, 2010 at 19:29 UTC

    Is it preferred to have methods in lower case?

    Most do, yes. More specifically, this is the first time I've ever see New. It's jarring, to say the least.

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