I'll try to keep an eye on this place, but I'd be grateful for an email-ed ping to mailto:anno4000@mailbox.tu-berlin.de if someone comments on this

If you register then you can turn on the /msg me on reply to my post and your monitoring would be as simple as visiting the Message Inbox occasionally to see what replies you have.

Who knows you might even end up posting a second time Anno. :-)

BTW, I strongly agree on the seperation of initialization and construction in perl classes. Assuming that new() will never be overloaded, but that init() might be is IMO one of the better ways to handle perl OO.