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Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/30/2017 08:47 PM, demerphq wrote: > > > > FWIW, I don't think I have ever seen anyone write > > > > my Foo $foo= Foo->new(); > > > > in the wild. No doubt they do somewhere, but not in any code I have > > looked at. And if you omit the "Foo" from "my Foo" (an easy mistake > > IMO) then the compile time checks go away as well, and fields.pm > > becomes completely run-time. > > Perlbal uses it. Yep, inherited from Danga::Socket and also used by MogileFS as a result. Being late to MogileFS and not speaking for the original D::S implementers; I guess 'fields' was intended to be a speed and space optimization in the 5.8 days which now backfires on newer Perls.Thread Previous | Thread Next