Class methods and Instance methods
examples/perloop/person09/script/person.pl
use strict; use warnings; use v5.10; use Person; my $first = Person->new( name => 'Foo' ); say Person->count; # 1 { my $second = Person->new( name => 'Bar' ); say Person->count; # 2 } say Person->count; # 2
examples/perloop/person09/lib/Person.pm
package Person; use strict; use warnings; my $count = 0; sub new { my ($class, %args) = @_; my $self = \%args; bless $self, $class; $count++; return $self; } sub name { my ($self, $value) = @_; return $self->{name}; } sub count { return $count; } 1;