In Perl, an object is a reference that's been blessed into a package. You've got parts of the necessary procedure in your new subroutine, but you need the classname (and the two-argument version of bless -- consult perldoc -f bless for more); when you do the call to new, the first argument passed to the sub is the name of the class (in this case, "mytest").

So change your constructor to: 

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {}; # makes $self a reference to an anon hash
    bless $self, $class;
    $self; # returns $self (blessed hashref) 
}

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(The shift acts on the argument list @_, so you get the first argument with the first shift)

Further, a method receives the object as its first argument, so your methods need to know what object they're talking about: 

sub get_ foo {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{foo};
}

sub put_foo {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{foo} = shift;
}

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(both of these methods are *skeletal*, but they'll do for testing purposes =)

Note, also, that if you don't want $self to be a hashref, it doesn't *have to be*, but I'd keep it as one for now.

Good references? perldoc perltoot, perldoc perlbot, and the Tutorials section on this here site. And if you like dead-tree stuff, you can't go wrong with Damian Conway's excellent Object Oriented Perl <-- a review

HTH!

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: Trying to learn how to build a module by arturo
in thread Trying to learn how to build a module by Yoda

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