I'm not exactly sure what you expect to happen, but I'm trying to interpret what you see:

You're not using strict, which is always a bad idea. In your case, it is a bad idea, because it allows you to be lax about where $blah is defined and used. Perl thinks you want $blah to be used as a global variable, that is why you see the value of $blah increasing in each call to printblah.

In testob::new(), you never give $self->{blah} a value, so it will be 1 after you increment it, which is then what is printed. If you want to hold on to $testo in your main loop, you would need to keep it declared on the outside of the loop, or turn your testob::new() subroutine into a subroutine that only returns one and the same object (fancy speaking people call this a "Singleton"):


{ my $singleton;
sub new {
  if (! $singleton) {
    my $class=shift;
    $singleton = {@_};

    bless($singleton,$class);
  };
  return $singleton;    
};

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