$self is not local or global, it's a lexical variable!... though, I recall seing some patch for this in p5p, maybe its supported in the development version of perl (currently 5.9.2).

The lexical scope bugs I've fixed in the 5.9.x branch aren't applicable here; a simple eval executed immediately (as opposed to later via a closure) has always been able to see variables in its immediate enclosing scope.

Dave.