What's the benefit of calling new on an object instance?
- by Geo
I'm reading [Programming Perl][1], and I found this code snippet:
sub new {
my $invocant = shift;
my $class = ref($invocant) || $invocant;
my $self = {
color => "bay",
legs => 4,
owner => undef,
@_, # Override previous attributes
};
return bless $self, $class;
}
With constructors like this one, what's the benefit of calling new on an object instance? I assume that it's what it's for, right? My guess is that if anyone would want to write such a constructor, he would have to add some more code that copies the attributes of the first object to the one about to be created.
