On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey < hdp.perl.module-auth...@weftsoar.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 05:56:10PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > > --As of May 26, 2009 12:33:08 PM -0700, Bill Ward is alleged to have > said: > > > >> How would you feel about ref($foo)->new(); > > > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > > > As a clone? Off the top of my head, I can't see what's that doing. A > > bit of thinking (and reading) about ref() makes it understandable, if not > > clean. > > No, as a way of creating a new object in the same class as an existing > object. > The suggestion for a method that clones was $obj->clone. $foo->new() makes a new object of the same type as $foo. I suggested ref($foo) as a more explicit alternative, rather like saying $count = scalar(@array) instead of just $count = @array to get the number of elements explicitly rather than implicitly. Kind of like a (cast) in C.
