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In other words $$v->flag is not being dereferenced and the method called, as I incorrectly assumed.

Thanks for all the help.

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Re^7: Indirect variable name
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 20, 2008 at 23:25 UTC
    I'm confused ... do you really want to do 
    print Util::Stuff::aaa1->flag();

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    print Util::Stuff::aaa1::flag();

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    in other words, are you importing moduls or classes ? I understood simple moduls...

    Does flag() need to know, in which package he was called?

    Cheers LanX

    UPDATE: you may want to have a look into perlboot if you don't know the difference... perl isn't a language one can master with try and error hacking ...
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      UPDATE: you may want to have a look into perlboot if you don't know the difference... perl isn't a language one can master with try and error hacking ...
      I stumbled across this only six months later, and I can't help wondering: What language is there better suited to trial-and-error manipulations? Certainly, after consulting the camel books for various basics, I learned a huge amount of what I know by experimenting and finding interesting and unexpected failures.
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        Well, you will learn a "a huge amount ... by experimenting" in all languages!

        But IMHO all these interwoven huffmancoded syntaxfeatures of Perl can only be masterd by reading the fucking manuals.

        > What language is there better suited to trial-and-error manipulations?

        From what I know ... Javascript! (with some exceptions)

        I don't really master Python, from what I've seen it's very orthogonal.

        Cheers Rolf

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