Problem in private package

kprasanna_79 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Revered Monks,
I face the below problem when i use private package.

The error is 
Cant find the method Deliv
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Actually i am calling this Deliv Package from the main package as below

push @delivs, new Deliv('deliverable ' . $_,$ini);
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Also i have written this Deliv Package in the bottom of main package code.

package Deliv;
use vars qw($AUTOLOAD);

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = bless {}, $class;
    my ($dev_sec,$cfg) = @_;

    $self->{source} = $cfg->val($dev_sec,'source');
    $self->{related_job}  = $cfg->val($dev_sec,'related_job');
    return $self;

}
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I believe this is working fine in another code, but here it not. Any idea???
-Prasanna.K

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Re: Problem in private package by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 28, 2008 at 23:54 UTC
The following: `use warnings; use strict; my @delivs; my $ini = 'wibble'; push @delivs, new Deliv ('deliverable ', $ini); $delivs[-1]->dump (); package Deliv; use vars qw($AUTOLOAD); sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = bless {}, $class; my ($dev_sec, $cfg) = @_; $self->{source} = $dev_sec; $self->{related_job} = $cfg; return $self; } sub dump { my ($self) = @_; print "$_: $self->{$_}\n" for sort keys %$self; }` [download] Prints: `related_job: wibble source: deliverable` [download] as I would expect. What are you doing that is different? Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Problem in private package by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 29, 2008 at 05:44 UTC
`push @delivs, new Deliv('deliverable ' . $_,$ini);` The indirect object syntax tends to fail horribly in curious ways, especially when you have everything in one file. I don't believe this will solve your entire problem, but you can avoid that ambiguity if your method calls look unambiguously like method calls: `push @delivs, Deliv->new( 'deliverable ' . $_, $ini );`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problem in private package by kprasanna_79 (Hermit) on Oct 29, 2008 at 16:16 UTC
chromatic It really worked..any idea why this worked and not the other -Prasanna.K	[reply]
Re^3: Problem in private package by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 29, 2008 at 17:48 UTC
Without seeing the actual error message, I can only guess that you already have a `new` function declared in the current package earlier in the file than this code, and Perl's calling that `new` instead of `Deliv`'s `new` function.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Problem in private package by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 29, 2008 at 01:32 UTC
Perl doesn't say "Cant find the method Deliv". It tends to spell "can't" correctly, for starters. Please provide the exact error message.	[reply]