Can anyone tell me why the method getName() returns "Shape=HASH(0x81073ec)->getName()"? Thanks Monks!

# Shape.pm
package Shape;

sub new {
    my $class    = shift;
    my $self     = {
            COLOR => "clear",
            LNGTH => "0",
            WIDTH => "0",
            NAME  => "blank",
            @_,
        };
        return bless $self, $class;
}

sub getName {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->{NAME};
}

1;


# in lego.pl
use Shape;

$circle = Shape->new(   COLOR => "red",
                        LNGTH => "2",
                        WIDTH => "2",
                        NAME => "barney"
                    );

print "The color of \$circle is: $circle->getName()\n";

exit(0);
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