I'm getting this blasted error: Can't use string "MyModule" as a HASH ref while "strict refs". I found this: http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlfuncorder.htm, but I couldn't find much else and my subroutines are not prototyped (in fact, this is a module I'm writing, and it is failing on the method new). Here's the general gist of the code: the new method goes like: 

sub new {

my $self = shift;

bless...

my $dbh = shift;

$self->{dbh} = $dbh;

return $self;

}

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then, in another file: 

use MyModule;

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect(...);

my $foo = MyModule::->new($dbh);

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both files are use strict; Can anyone help me out with what is going on here? I even tried passing the $dbh by reference, but it gave me the same error.

Edit kudra, 2002-01-10 Appended to title

In reply to Can't use string as a HASH ref while strict refs by wlinx

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