Thanks for all your help. Interestingly enough the .perl method reports that
the parameter passed to the new method is stored in the object whether it's
defined as an attribute or not:
class MattTest {
has Str $.bar ;
submethod BUILD (:$foo) {
say "passed $foo";
$.bar
>I think so (after fixing a couple of minor typos).
>
>Does this mean that you can only pass defined attributes to a constructor ?
>What if you want to pass parameters that are used during build but don't
>actually need to be stored in the object ?
Hopefully you don't mind my cc'ing the list-
Is this what you're looking for?
class MattTest {
has Str $.string;
submethod BUILD (:$string) { ## submethod BUILD is the constructor
## :$string is a named argument
"string"
say "passed $string";
}
}
my $test = MattTest(:stri
