I'm trying to create a module that has a hashref as a data member. It appears to function correctly in the same method its initialized in (new) but when I reference it later in another function (test) I get "is not a HASH ref." In the test() method, if I Data::Dumper($self), I can see the hash inside(data), but I can't access $self->{data} directly. here is the module: 
package Foo;

use strict;

use Data::Dumper;
use Exporter;

our ($VERSION,@ISA,@EXPORT,@EXPORT_OK);
$VERSION     = 0.99;
@ISA         = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT      = @EXPORT_OK;
@EXPORT_OK   = qw(new test);

sub new(){
  my $self = {};
  $self->{data} = {};
  $self->{data}->{start_url} = "https://www.w.com/home.html";

  bless \$self;
}

sub test(){
  my $self = shift;
#  print $self->{data}->{start_url};
#  print Dumper($self);
  print Dumper($self->{data});
}

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and here is the simple test program: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Foo;

my $obj = Foo->new();
$obj->test();

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and here is the error: Not a HASH reference at Foo.pm line 26.

In reply to hash "member" of a module by npc

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