Ive been having trouble embedding Class::Struct as the type of an element of another Class::Struct Following the example in The Perl Cookbook section 13.5 "Using Classes as Structs", i've created the following code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Class::Struct;


struct Person   =>  {
    name    =>  '$',
    age     =>  '$',
};

struct Family   =>  {
    head        =>  'Person',
    address     =>  '$',
    members     =>  '@',
};

{
    my $folks = Family->new();
    my $dad = $folks->head();

    print "dad = $dad , its a " . ref($dad) . "\n";

    $dad->name("John");
    $dad->age(34);
}

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Now, the output from this program is:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at cook_test.pl line 21.
dad = , its a
Can't call method "name" on an undefined value at cook_test.pl line 23.


shouldn't ref($dad) say "Person" ?
it appears that $folks->head() is returning an unitialized scalar.
BTW i'm running Perl 5.8.0 for sun4-solaris
any insight into what im missing would be great.
related: anybody know if Class:StructTemplate has evolved at all. the CPAN documentation is from 12-26-2000, and i do want to serialize structs into MySQL
thanks much

In reply to Embedded Class::Struct Misbehaviour by shemp

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