[NUUG fiksgatami] [patch] Fix for strange perl error (Was: Stuck setting up our fixmystreet copy - strange error)

[Matthew Somerville]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> It sure look like it, yeah.  Or something similar.

It appears that fields::new() has always blessed the object into the 
class provided; prior to 5.9, it would be a pseudo hash, which can 
presumably be blessed again, whereas in 5.9/10, it's a restricted hash, 
and that must make the difference somehow. I'm not sure why our code 
performed another bless() - I'm guessing something to do with 
inheritance that isn't really relevant here.

I've rewritten the function more per the Perl documentation, so it 
should hopefully be okay on both versions of Perl now.

ATB,
Matthew