Hi, Good advice has been given on how to get around your code issue, but what I just want to point out here is that as a general rule, if the module is trying to be object oriented as it is, then export nothing so,

package coolobject;
use strict;

our @ISA = qw/Exporter/;
our @EXPORTER = qw/new/;

sub new{
    my $class = shift;
    my $self;

    $self->{name} = 'new';
    bless ($self);

    if ($self->loaddata()){
        return $self;
    }else{
        $! = "Error loading data!";
        undef $self;
        return undef;
    }
}
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could still be written as

package coolobject;
use strict;

sub new{
    my $type = shift;
        my $class  = ref($type)|| $type;
    my $self;

    $self->{name} = 'new';
    bless ($self,$class);

    if ($self->loaddata()){
        return $self;
       ......
}
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And later called as with new() as occassion demands.

Please check: perldoc Exporter