Sure, I grok what it is and what it is doing.  I was just wondering if there was a less ugly syntax.  I tend not to override new for my classes so I don't have to use this awful spelling all that often.  (it in fact has two things wrong with it -- the space in the name and the `::` to mean scope from global.  I was hoping to remove one of those).  This doesn't block this PR at all.  Just academically interested.