For your consideration: 
package Employee;

sub spawn
    {
     my $class = shift;
     my $self =
            {
             empid => 200,
             name => "Joe",
             pay => 20,
             @_,
            };
     return bless $self, $class;
    }
   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;
          }

package main;

$wk1 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Joe", empid=>201, pay=>25);
$wk2 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Moe");
$wk3 = Employee->spawn(name=>"Bob", empid=>202);

print $wk1->get_name," Earns ",$wk1->get_pay," dollars per hour. His/h
+er Emp ID is: ",$wk1->{empid};
print $wk2->get_name," Earns ",$wk2->get_pay," dollars per hour. His/h
+er Emp ID is: ",$wk2->{empid};
print $wk3->get_name," Earns ",$wk3->get_pay," dollars per hour. His/h
+er Emp ID is: ",$wk3->{empid};

print "Got this far!";
$wk1->set_pay(70);
$wk2->set_name("NewMoe");

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $wk1;
print Dumper $wk2;
print Dumper $wk3;

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In reply to Re: "Can't locate object method" error by Anonymous Monk
in thread "Can't locate object method" error by doctor T

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