I give up. Now you have to say one of: use feature 'class'; use 5.011; ... to enable this feature. While it's *possible* to make this code work by default in the face of all of that DarkPAN code which passes single-element hash references to methods named 'class' in the dative form, it's very much not worth my time to do so (not that it was worth my time to work around Perl 4-era package separators, but it's a snow day). -- cThread Next