Why on earth would you want to export new in OO code

I struggled with this one for a while myself, wondering what the idea might be, and I have come to a hypothesis, however shaky. :-) If we want to use a common class framework amongst many classes but dont want them to have a common ISA ancestor then we might make a module like

package ObjectPrototype;
use base qw/Exporter/;
@EXPORT=qw(new);
sub new { my $class=shift; bless {@_},$class }
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so now we can say

package Foo;
use ObjectPrototype;
package Bar;
use ObjectPrototype;
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without establishing an ISA relationship between any of the module/classes involved.

I admit however that the only reason I could think that this would be useful is if you were doing some funky by hand @ISA tree walking in your code. Having only done this once myself I dont see it being needed much. Although now the thought has come to me... :-)

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