use strict;

my @foo;
push @foo, Foo->new() for (0..4);

package Foo;
use vars qw($count);

sub new { 
   my $class = shift;

   $count++;
   print STDERR 'there are ', $count, " instances\n";

   my $self  = {
      bar => 42
   };
   return bless $self, $class;
}