> And, furthermore, that you could easily define special semantics
> for void-context constructor calls via undef'd but typed variables,
> so that you could just write:
>
> (my Date $date).new('June 25, 2002');
>
> and have the interpreter autovivify the object.
That's pretty close to what I was thinking of, but I don't think the
constructors actually have to be special. What if "my Date $date;" lets the
compiler know that $date belongs to the Date class, even if it's undef? If
that's the case you could call static functions as $date.foo() instead of
Date.foo(), and therefore your constructor call would be simply
my Date $date .= new('Jun 25, 20002');
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