Hi Monks,

First off, I am kind of discouraged because I posted this twice before, it showed as posted, and then when I went back to check for replies, my post was not present. Was it deleted?

I don’t understand.

Anyway, I am trying to do Perl OOP. I am following Damien Conway’s book. I wrote some very basic code that I think should work and seems compatible with what Conway does in the beginning of his OOP chapter (3). But, I get this error and I am pretty sure whatever I am doing wrong must be something extremely basic.

I am just wondering what is wrong with the code.

The error is in Line 23, which is in sub new. The error is:

Can’t use string (“Message”) as a HASH while “strict refs” in use at line 23.

The following is Line 23:

return $self->{_name};

And the following is all of the code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

package Message;
use strict;

sub new
{
    my ($class) = @_;
#    bless {
    my $objref = {
        _name        => $_[1],
        _subject    => $_[2],
        _message    => $_[3],
#    }, $class;
    };
    bless $objref, $class;
    return $objref;
}

sub name
{
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $self->{_name};
}

package main;

use strict;

my $objType = "Message";
my $name = "John Doe";
my $subject = "money";
my $message = "FRN's should be outlawed.";
my $message_obj = Message->new( $name, $subject, $message );

my $name2 = Message->name( $message_obj );
print "\nMy name is $name2\n";

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I’m really stuck so if someone can give me a hand, that would be great.

o2bwise

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