Hi Folks,

I'm trying to teach myself the ins and outs of OO Perl and I'm having problems. In reference (excuse the pun) to my Texas Hold'ems thread, I'm trying to write a class which will allow me to reuse some of the code and I'm getting problems.

We have the following code... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

package Texas;

sub New {

    my $type = shift;
    my $class = ref($type) || $type;
    my $game = {
                 hands => [],
                 flop  => [],
                 deck  => []
                              };
    bless ($game, $class);
    return $game;
}

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But when I say...

my $object = New Texas;

...I tend to get an error which says that Texas.pm doesn't return a true value. Please point out where I am going wrong.

For the record, I have tried looking this up in perltoot and similar but to no avail. I am using Perl 5.005_03.

TIA, Elgon

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