Hello monks, I am trying to set a value to a scalar inside an object directly, without using accessor and mutator methods. The objects code is: 
package Lala;
use strict;
our $name = "";

sub newlala($)
{
    my $self = {};
    bless $self;
    return $self;
}

sub setname($)
{
  my $self = shift;
  $name = shift;
}

sub getname()
{
  return $name;
}

1;

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With this code i can simply write: 
  my $ref = Lala->newlala();
  $ref->setname("Moufa");
  my $name = $ref->getname();
  print "Got name(ref): $name\n";
  my $ref1 = Lala->newlala();
  $ref1->setname("Troufa");
  $name = $ref1->getname();
  print "Got name(ref1): $name\n";
  my $ref2 = Lala->newlala();
  $ref2->$name="TRalala";
  $name = $ref2->getname();
  print "Got name(ref2): $name\n";

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and works fine but what i cannot do (and i want to) is 
  my $ref2 = Lala->newlala();
  $ref2->$name="TRalala";

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Any ideas? Thanks!

In reply to Acessing an object's variable by gmantz

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