my $thing = My::Class->new(...)->$_tap(set_foo => 1);
+For a 'real' example of how that might be used, one could create and
+initialize an L<HTML::TableExtract> object in one go using -
+
+ my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new->$_tap(parse => $html);
+
=head1 AUTHOR
mst - Matt S. Trout (cpan:MSTROUT) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>