Nit: you don't need the prototype; Perl does the right thing for you automatically.

I like hashes in constructors where I may have to set defaults. They're also nice when you don't want to remember the positions of arguments:

my $alias = Mail::SimpleList::Alias->new(
    Expires  => '7d',
    Auto_add => 0,
    Closed   => 1,
);

# and in Mail::SimpleList::Alias

sub new
{
    my $class = shift;

    bless {
        Owner    => '',
        Auto_add => 1,
        Expires  => 0,
        Closed   => 0,
        @_;
    }, $class;
}

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In reply to Re: passing subroutine args as a hash: why not? by chromatic
in thread passing subroutine args as a hash: why not? by Willard B. Trophy

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