Monks, This is probably a question resulting from a java-based intro to oo design. I'm still working on the conversion to perl, so please bear with me :) Let's say there's code currently executing inside of a private method in an instance of the Monkey class. I would like this code to be able to access some instance fields, but do not want to keep passing $self around from private method to private method. My (limited) understanding of perl tells this would be a job for accessing the symbol table for this instance. I could not find anything like this in the camel book (the closest thing used a non-oo example w/ the %main:: symbol table), so chances are I'm looking in the wrong places or for the wrong thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark

In reply to Instance field access from private methods by markcsmith

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