My most gracious fellow Monks,

I'm trying to get a handle on Class::Multimethods but I can't seem to get it to do basic class accessor methods when if nothing is passed to the method it just returns the class field for the method, otherwise if a string is passed, it assigned that string to the field. For instance: 

my $f = Flub->new("Cheese is Good.");
print $f->flubble() . "\n";
$f->flubble("Cheese is Bad");
print $f->flubble() . "\n";

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I know that this is easily possible doing basic Perl, but I'm hoping to get into fancier things after I figure out how this works.

My full code is below.

Thanks! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

package Flub;
use strict;
use Class::Multimethods;

sub new
{
    my ($class) = @_;
    bless {
        _flub    => $_[1] || "",
    }, $class;

} # new

multimethod flubble => ('*') => sub { 
    my ($self) = shift;
    return $self->{_flub};
};

multimethod flubble => ('$') => sub { 
    my ($self) = shift;
    $self->{_flub} = shift;
    return $self->{_flub};
};

package main;

use strict;

my $f = Flub->new("Cheese is Good.");
print "Trying to display \$f->{_flub}: " . 
    $f->flubble() . "\n";
print "Trying to assign Cheese is Bad to \$f->{_flub}: " . 
    $f->flubble("Cheese is Bad ") . "\n";

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In reply to Basic Accessor Methods using Class::Multimethods by ignatz

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