Hello Monks

I am trying to learn how to build a module. I read chapter 7 in Perl in a Nutshell and got most of it down. I was able to call my functions and get the desired responses. Then I wanted to try and make a constructor. My program used to return a string, now it returns some type of hash reference. I know I am not making sense, so let me show you what I mean. 
#file caller.plx
require mytest;
use strict;

my ($mt) = new mytest;

$mt->put_name("Yoda");
print "The name is ".$mt->get_name()."\n";



######file mytest.pm
use strict;

my $name;


sub new { 
  my $self = {};
  bless $self;
  return $self;
}

sub get_name {
  if (defined ($name)) {
    return $name;
  } else {
    return "error";
  }
}

sub put_name {

  $name = "$_[0]";

}
1;

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This is what I get 
The name is mytest=HASH(0x176f1e8)

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What I was expecting was 
The name is Yoda

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Is there a good source to learn about building constructors?
Thanks!

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