Re: problams with IO::Socket::INET

Mark Mielke (markm@nortel.ca)
27 Jan 1998 23:03 EST


In message "Re: problams with IO::Socket::INET", 
'tchrist@jhereg.perl.com' writes:
>Could he who is enamoured of ->new() as a name please chime in?

Maybe it's a mistake, but i also _always_ tend to use ->new() because
it's the most obvious. Having to always look-up the docs for how to
construct on object is a rather frivolous waste of time in my eyes :-)
(Read: I'm freakin' lazy and i'd rather have an INTUITIVE interface...
one that i can guess without reading the docs)

As well, C++ and Java require you to use new(). I know that's not a
bulletproof reason, but it makes it more obvious to someone who has
never used the class in question before.

mark

P.S. I prefer:
         my $object = new ObjectName();
     Perhaps i am stuck on C++/Java. Oh well.

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