in reply to Do Mooses always want to face north?

In the second snippet, you're using the "module" before it has had a chance to execute. Specifically, you're creating the object before has has had a chance to execute.

Change 

...
{
    package test;
    ...
}
...

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to 

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BEGIN {
    package test;
    ...
}
...

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use has an implicit BEGIN, but Perl doesn't provide a means for user function such as has to have an implicit BEGIN.

PS - There's a lot of moose (the life-size fiberglass kind) in Toronto, and they face in every which direction.

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Re^2: Do Mooses always want to face north?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2008 at 18:12 UTC

    Yep. I added the BEGIN{} per dragonchild's post and problem gone.

    PS - There's a lot of moose (the life-size fiberglass kind) in Toronto, and they face in every which direction.

    A place I used to live many years ago has concrete cows, but they all tend to face in the same direction, (at any given time) just like their flesh and blood counterparts.

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      Interesting. In the Sonoma County area in California they've got artistically painted cows all around.

      My favorite is the one at Infineon Raceway with the exhaust pipes coming off the back end. :)

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        Could that be part of the Cow Parade? They were in NYC a few years back; I loved the whimsical nature of a lot of the pieces, like this one.

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