in reply to cloning

Hm... This doesn't sound right. You are creating copies of the name of the class, but not clones of the object itself. Maybe something like this: 
while(my $clone = (ref $self)->new) {
  push @{$army}, $clone;
}

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Now you have a real army, and not only a list of soldiers' names... :-)

--ZZamboni

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RE: RE: cloning
by splinky (Hermit) on Jul 04, 2000 at 18:32 UTC
    Or, if you're an illusionist, you could cast Mirror Image. 

    while(my $clone = \$self) {
  push @{$army}, $clone;
}

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    Much less resource-intensive. Of course, it's all a moot point since you spend all your time creating an army and never attack or defend anything.

    *Woof*

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