Creating Perl Modules and OO Programming

package NewModule;

use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION);
$VERSION = '0.01';

sub new {
  my $package = shift;
  return bless({}, $package);
}

sub verbose {
  my $self = shift;
  if (@_) {
    $self->{'verbose'} = shift;
  }
  return $self->{'verbose'};
}

sub hoot {
  my $self = shift;
  return "Don't pollute!" if $self->{'verbose'};
  return;
}

1;
__END__

# Before `make install' is performed this script should be runnable with
# `make test'. After `make install' it should work as `perl test.pl'

######################### We start with some black magic to print on failure.

# Change 1..1 below to 1..last_test_to_print .
# (It may become useful if the test is moved to ./t subdirectory.)

BEGIN { $| = 1; print "1..1\n"; }
END {print "not ok 1\n" unless $loaded;}
use NewModule;
$loaded = 1;
print "ok 1\n";

######################### End of black magic.

# Insert your test code below (better if it prints "ok 13"
# (correspondingly "not ok 13") depending on the success of chunk 13
# of the test code):

# Test 2:
my $obj = new NewModule;
$obj->verbose(1);
my $result = $obj->hoot;
print ($result eq "Don't pollute!" ? "ok 2\n" : "not ok 2\n");

# Test 3:
$obj->verbose(0);
my $result = $obj->hoot;
print ($result eq "" ? "ok 3\n" : "not ok 3\n");