defining a new pgf class fails

Question

I want to use the pgf oo library to create a new class. Unfortunately, even this fails:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepgfmodule{oo}

\pgfooclass{mapEntry}{ %
    \method mapEntry() {%
    }
}

\begin{document}
    \pgfoonew \myObj = new mapEntry()
\end{document}

This is the error message I get:

Runaway argument?
\myObj = new mapEntry() \end {document} 
! File ended while scanning use of \pgfoo@new.
<inserted text> 
            \par

Why does it fail? I found literally nothing useful about this, apart from the tikz manual chapter on the oo library.

Answer 1

For some reason, having spaces around the = will break things (even though they are used in the manual). The following code compiles for me:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepgfmodule{oo}

\pgfooclass{mapEntry}{ %
    \method mapEntry() {%
    }
}

\begin{document}

\pgfoonew \myObj=new mapEntry()

\end{document}