I have been trying to learn Perl...i was doing well then i tried to take a new step and things quit working. Now i have this code that i have been attempting to run on ideone.com. I know the problem starts on line 40ish (the first print statement)but i have not been able to figure out why the process crashes... It's a simple thing and looks very square because i am coming from a long C++ background. Any help that can get me off of this hump would be sooooo much appreciated. 

package Employee;

sub spawn                            
    {                            
     my $invocant = shift;                            
     my $class = ref($invocant) || $invocant;                         
+   
     my $self =                            
            {                            
             empid => 200,                            
             name => "Joe",                            
             pay => 20,                            
             @_,                            
            };                            
   sub get_name                            
            {                            
            my $self = shift;                            
            return $self-> (name);                            
            }                            
   sub set_name                            
          {                            
          my $self = shift;                            
          $self -> (name) = shift;                            
          }                            
   sub get_pay                            
            {                            
            my $self = shift;                            
            return $self-> (pay);                            
            }                            
   sub set_pay                            
          {                            
          my $self = shift;                            
          $self -> (pay) = shift;                            
          }                            
    return bless $self, $class;                            
   }    

$wk1 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Joe", empid=>201, pay=>25);
$wk2 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Moe");                            
$wk3 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Bob", empid=>202);
                            
print $wk1->name," Earns ",$wk1->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp I
+D is: ",$wk1->empid;                            
print $wk2->name," Earns ",$wk2->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp I
+D is: ",$wk2->empid;                            
print $wk3->name," Earns ",$wk3->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp I
+D is: ",$wk3->empid;    

print "Got this far!";                            
$wk1->set_pay(70);                            
$wk2->set_name("NewMoe");                            
                            
print $wk1;#->name," Earns ",$wk1->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp
+ ID is: ",$wk1->empid;                            
print $wk2;#->name," Earns ",$wk2->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp
+ ID is: ",$wk2->empid;                            
print $wk3;#->name," Earns ",$wk3->pay," dollars per hour. His/her Emp
+ ID is: ",$wk3->empid;

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