use Data::Dumper; ... my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; print Dumper $ua; ... my $res = $ua->get(...); print Dumper $res; ... #### c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le "{ package Foo; use Data::Dump qw(pp); ;; sub new { my $class = shift; return bless { show_progress => 'not so fast', @_, } => $class; } sub show_progress { my $self = shift; print 'Real Thing: ', pp $self; } } ;; my $object_reference = Foo->new(foo => 'bar', hi => 'lo'); ;; $object_reference->show_progress; print 'A: ', $$object_reference {show_progress}; print 'B: ', $object_reference->{show_progress}; " Real Thing: bless({ foo => "bar", hi => "lo", show_progress => "not so fast" }, "Foo") A: not so fast B: not so fast