OeufMayo: you have the right idea, but you're on the wrong track and are a bit confused about context. 
my $class = @_;

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The left side is a scalar, which means the array '@_' is being called in scalar context. As a result, $class will be set to the number of elements in @_.

Also, you want curly braces '{}' in the "my $self =" line to create the reference to the anonymous hash. The following should work: 

sub new {
    my ( $class ) = @_;
    my $self = { user    => $_[1],
                 session => 4556,
               };
    bless($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

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Putting the parenthesis around $class in the first line of the sub causes it to be evaluated in list context and grabs the first element of @_. There are still better ways to write that, but I'll leave it at that for now.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid - quick fix to your new constructor) Re(2): perl oo by Ovid
in thread perl oo by Anonymous Monk

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