ExtUti...tructor(3pm)

✨ ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Constructor ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Constructor, a little Perl module that lives in the ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::* family and ships with the Perl docs 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Constructor — it's a Node, and it represents a constructor method. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically: this is a subclass of ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Method, and it represents a constructor, like this absolute icon right here:

class FooBar {
  FooBar(); // <-- this one
};

see that FooBar();? yeah. that's the moment. main character energy 👑

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💖 METHODS 💖

🌟 new

Creates a new <hotpink>ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Constructor</hotpink>. fresh out the box, no cap ✨

Most of the functionality of this class is inherited, which means every single named parameter of ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Method and its base class is also valid for this class' constructor. so like, don't panic, the family traits come through 🫶

Additionally, this class requires that no return type has been specified — because constructors do not have return types. periodt. don't come in here trying to give your constructor a return type, it's simply not the move 🙈

🎀 ret_type

Unlike the ret_type method of the ExtUtils::XSpp::Node::Method class, ret_type here will return the type "pointer to object of this class" as the return type of the constructor. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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fr fr: the whole point is that constructors don't declare a return type, but ret_type still hands you back "pointer to object of this class" when you ask. that's the gag. 😭

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