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Is this something anyone can answer from what I've described?

Absolutely, see 

$ perl -Mdiagnostics -e " rand()->menu "
Can't call method "menu" without a package or object reference at -e l
+ine 1 (#1)
    (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by t
+he
    object reference or package name contains an expression that retur
+ns a
    defined value which is neither an object reference nor a package n
+ame.
    Something like this will reproduce the error:

        $BADREF = 42;
        process $BADREF 1,2,3;
        $BADREF->process(1,2,3);

Uncaught exception from user code:
        Can't call method "menu" without a package or object reference
+ at -e line 1.
 at -e line 1.

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That may or may not help you :)

If not, I'm happy to cook up some sample code to reproduce this problem.

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