Why are you so hung up on this? It seems to be more or less a matter of taste. There are plenty of CPAN modules that take a list of raw name/value pairs, and plenty that take a hash reference instead.

As pointed out by ikegami, the way Moose does it is probably more efficient. OTOH, Perl Best Practices chapter nine ("Use a hash of named arguments for any subroutine that has more than three parameters") advises "as tempting as it may be, don't pass them as a list of raw name/value pairs". Conway recommends passing named arguments as a hash reference instead, because, as ikegami also noticed, doing so gives you a good chance of catching common blunders, such as the one made by the OP, at compile-time ("Odd number of elements in hash"), rather than run-time.

Update: As indicated at Named Subroutine Parameters: Compile-time errors vs. Run-time warnings, this "reason" was an error in the book: anonymous hash population is done at run-time, not compile-time. Conway still stands by the advice though because "Error messages that point users to the right place are definitely worth the (tiny) overhead of passing named args in a hash".

BTW, PBP chapter nine used to be the free sample chapter, but has now become a broken link. :-(

In reply to Re: Why Moose uses this syntax??!! by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Why Moose uses this syntax??!! by Anonymous Monk

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