I have used Perl for a while now, but I have never even thought about using it's class capabillites. Now I am and I am dying. The code in "Perl Cookbook" didn't work, so I wrote some of my own. I was able to get some limited functionality, but it seems ridiculous compared with some of the other classes I have seen. here is my module: 
package Person;
require 5.004;
#use strict; 
my $Person;
$Person::version = "1.00.01";
$Person::build = "\$ID:2255518";
$Person::list = {};
sub new
{
    my $class = shift;
    return bless($Person::list,shift);
}
sub name 
{
    $Person::list->{NAME} = $_[0];
    return $Person::list->{NAME};
}
sub age
{
    $Person::list->{AGE} = shift if @_;
    return $Person::list->{AGE}; 
}
sub exclaim
{
    printf "I'm %s and i'm %d years old!\n",$Person::list->{NAME},$Per
+son::list{AGE};
    return 1;
}
1;

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And here is my test program: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Person qw/name age exclaim/;
my $foo = Person->new();
$foo->Person::name("Stefan");
$foo->Person::name(20);
$foo->Person::exclaim();

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Any one care to rip this apart and show me really and truly how to do classes in Perl? I would like to be able to call class functions without the "Person:: in front of it. I was looking at the AUTOLOAD in Perl Cookbook, but I wanted to see what the monks would come up with.Any help is appreciated. Thanx straywalrus

In reply to Classes Are Killing Me by straywalrus

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