use strict; use warnings; use experimental "signatures"; use Carp; { package BLA; sub new ($class,@properties) { return bless {@properties}, $class; } sub foo ($self, @val) { unless (@val){ # getter return $self->{foo} } elsif (@val == 1) { # setter return $self->{foo} = $val[0]; } else { # ERROR local $" = ","; Carp::croak "Too many arguments for method 'BLA->foo(@val)'"; } } } my $x = BLA->new(foo=>42); warn "getter:", $x->foo; warn "setter:", $x->foo(666); warn "getter:", $x->foo; warn "error:", $x->foo(42,666); #### -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "d:/tmp/pm/" -*- Compilation started at Fri Jan 8 21:39:32 C:/Perl_524/bin\perl.exe -w d:/tmp/pm/missing_param.pl getter:42 at d:/tmp/pm/missing_param.pl line 31. setter:666 at d:/tmp/pm/missing_param.pl line 32. getter:666 at d:/tmp/pm/missing_param.pl line 33. Too many arguments for method 'BLA->foo(42,666)' at d:/tmp/pm/missing_param.pl line 34. Compilation exited abnormally with code 255 at Fri Jan 8 21:39:33