use strict; use lib ("./Lib"); use Datum; my $datum = new Datum; #### package Datum; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Class::Struct; struct Datum => { heights_agl => '@', }; sub heights_agl { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->set_values(Variable=>'heights_agl',@_); } } sub set_values { my $self = shift; my %args = @_; die Dumper \@_; } 1; #### C:\Tmp\debug.4>perl driver.pl function 'heights_agl' already defined, overrides struct accessor method at Lib/Datum.pm line 8. C:\Tmp\debug.4>perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread #### $ perl driver.pl function 'heights_agl' already defined, overrides struct accessor method at Lib/Datum.pm line 8. Odd number of elements in hash assignment at Lib/Datum.pm line 25. $VAR1 = [ 'Variable', 'heights_agl', [] ]; $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 67 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)