in reply to Re^2: Anonymous Hash in Constructor
in thread Anonymous Hash in Constructor

Indeed. The two sample constructors I provided are functionally identical. If the Perl compiler were smart enough, it could happily generate the same optree from each (but it currently does not).

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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