I would like to add to the useful suggestions by tadman and fever; I'd suggest to use a debugger with your test program to try to catch the point where the crap comes out.

I am too lazy to learn the "plain" perl debugger (but laziness is a virtue for a Perl Programmer, as Saint LW says :-), so I use ptkdb, a visual perl debugger. It's easy to use and well documented.

Of course, you will need tk.

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}