Hi PerlMonks,

It maybe a simple thing, but I seem to have hit a brick wall.

I have a very simple class and in the constructor, I am creating a hash that is holding references to subs which are members of the same class as well.

see below:

package EOYStats;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $this = bless {}, $class;

    $this->{ACT} = shift;

    %{ $this->{ACTIVITIES} } =
        (
         'Sale' =>
         {
         'func'    => \&total_sold,
         'datefield' => "date_sold",

         },
         'Purchae' =>
         {
         'func'    => \&total_bought,
         'datefield' => "date_bought",
         },
        );

    return $this;
}

sub get_stats
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $arg = shift;

    $this->{ACTIVITIES}->{$this->{ACT}}->{'func'}->($arg);
}

sub total_sold
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $arg = shift;

   $this->dosomething();
}

sub total_bought
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $arg = shift;

# Do stuff....
}

sub dosomething
{
        my $this = shift;

        print "This is test...\n";
}



return 1;
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Now, when I call total_sold from another method in this class (get_stats in this case), '$this' is undefined in total_sold and '$this->dosomething' returns an error 'Can't call method "dosomething" on an undefined value at EOYStats.pm line 37.'

There is no real need to have these methods in a hash. I can simply write conditions in the get_stats and call the methods accordingly, but I wanted to try and see if this worked.

so is it really ridiculously bad idea to do this or is it not possible or simply silly thing to do?

Sorry if this is too confusing.

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