Why not allow for different constructor names? Why only new?
Because we really don’t need dozens of different constructor names. Using new is a best practiced followed not only by most of the Perl community but other languages as well. § See Give every constructor the same standard name in Perl Best Practices. § • Why not a fields tag instead of attrs? Believe it or not a lot of thought went into those tag names. Some are based on terms defined in The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, Encyclopedia of Terms (Rumbaugh, Jacobson, and Booch): § • attribute (aka field, member variable, column) “An attribute is the description of a named slot of a specified type in a class;” § • method (aka operation, member function, subroutine) “An operation is a specification of a transformation or query that an object [or class] may be called to execute. It has a name and a list of parameters.” § “A method is the implementation of an operation. It specifies the algorithm or procedure that produces the results of an operation.” § An operation is the name
