SPUG: method call during object construction

[Fred Morris]

Wild guess (since you didn't supply the actual code for the new() or
change_name() methods):

change_name returns 'new_class_name' as its function value.

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Umar Cheema wrote:

> I was hoping to make this work:
>
> my $obj = Class->new('class_name')->change_name('new_class_name');
> $obj->do_other_things();
> ....
>
> But after the constructor call $obj simply holds the value returned by the
> 'change_name' method.
>

Try

my $obj;

($obj = Class->new('class_name'))->change_name('new_class_name');

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