The easy way to explain this is to consider a typical constructor.

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

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Now, why is the first argument to the constructor called $class instead of $self? Because when the constructor is called properly, the first argument to it is the name of the class (as a string), not an object. This is because you haven't created the object yet!

$package = WM::Install::Table::ArchiveTbl->get_pkgname();

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The previous line of code cannot work with the current structure of your AUTOLOAD because the first argument will be the classname and not a hashref. Either call the method from an instance of the class or recode your AUTOLOAD.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Autoload'ed class method calls by Ovid
in thread Autoload'ed class method calls by hackdaddy

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