--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.
Based on that, I'd say it's ugly, but works. If I expected to do that sort
of thing often I'd probably want to offer another method in $foo that would
do what I want. (Either 'clone' or 'duplicate' come to mind, but both
sound like they copy data as well as type. Maybe 'another'?)
Daniel T. Staal
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