SPUG:Object property question

[Sanford Morton]

Yes, you're right of course. To incorporate a constructor init method, which I  
like, it ought to have been

  sub new {
      my $class = shift;
      my $self = {};
      bless $self, $class;
      $self->_init (@_);
      return $self;
  }


On 2 May 2003, Michael R. Wolf wrote:

> Sanford Morton <smorton at pobox.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > sub new {        # constructor     ==> changes and prints first name
> >     my $class = shift;
> >     my $self = {};   
> >     $self->_init(@_);
>
> NOPE!!!! Can't call a member method on an unblessed reference. Well,
> you can, but it doesn't do the magic of adding the referent as the  
> first argument as you assume in the code below. But if you reshuffle
> the code, you could do it.
> 
> >     return bless $self, $class;
> > }
> >