Hi, i am using perl from 1 year. But i am new to OOPS. I have a class used to write the log messages to the file 

use Test_logger;
my $log = Test_logger -> new();

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There is a constructor which will create a unique log file. Ex : Feb_14_2008_15_30_30 ( Month_Day_Year_Hour_Min_Sec). I have a method called message to receive a scalar value and write the contents of scalar to the log file. 

$log -> message (" Start of program");

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This works fine. But i have a lot of my own modules in my main program. So when i call these subroutines i want to pass this log object to the subroutine so that the subroutine logs also can be visible. Hence i want to pass this object to the subroutine and write logs there. But This is not working.

Ex: 

use ADDITION ( &test_addition);
test_addition ( $log);
sub test_addition {
    my $log = shift;
    $log -> message ("Inside the subroutine test_addition);
}
In my main program 
print $log ; gives HASH(0x1e2ec5c)
in the subroutine 
print $log ; gives HASH(0x1e2ec5c)

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