Re: P::RD and OOP

[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz)) 03 Aug 2004 08:50:04 -0700
Newsgroups perl.recdescent
Organization Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Completely ignoring the rest of your note, and obssessing on this
one part:

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Farber <[email protected]> writes:

Alexander> sub new {
Alexander> 	my $proto = shift;
Alexander> 	my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;

Please don't do this.  Read my rant at:

        <http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col52.html>

and note that the latest version of the "perldoc perltoot" where this
abomination first appeared has been fixed in the latest Perl releases.

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