Can someone point me at docs as to why that's better? I've seen both used and
didn't know one was considered better than the other.
new CGI; is ambiguouse (did you mean to call the function new() in the
main:: name space with the expression (function? constant? bareword?
handle?) "CGI"?
CGI->new() is clearly a method call to CGI's new() method.
in this case it may be pretty obvious *but* an object construtor method
does not have to be named "new" and in such a case:
birdhouse SOUL {
'size' => 'little',
'whose' => 'your',
};
is much more difficult to tell whats going on than:
SOUL->birdhouse({
'size' => 'little',
'whose' => 'your',
});
Its immediately obviouse without any muss or fuss that its a call to
"make a little birdhouse in your soul" :)
Its documented in `perldoc perlstyle` I beleive (no time to check right
now) and also see Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices" if you really
want to start doing stuff right ;p
HTH :)
