Well I could run the debugger and show the values, but this particular section is within a Test Script that runs like this:
The main script called is - TestHarness.pl
Which loads - SolarisTestHarness.pm that begins to set values, but loads the Super Values first.
So it loads - UnixTestHarness.pm - which begins setting some values but it also loads - TestHarness.pm - because this is the Super of UnixTestHarness.pm
After TestHarness.pm and UnixTestHarness.pm complete populating values it's back to SolarisTestHarness.pm - which only adds two values before it starts running, this is to include the $self->{'binDir'} value. But this one never gets set, so when a function getBinDir() is called, nothing is returned because the value is somehow skipped.
Hope that is a little clearer, I should definitely drink more coffee before posting....

Didn't know about new(@_), that is something I can try.

In reply to Re^2: Question on OO Perl by gokuraku
in thread Question on OO Perl by gokuraku

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