package BigThing;

sub new {
      shift;
      my $self={
            field1 => 0,
            field2 => "",
            field3 => 0x0 
      };
      bless $self,"BigThing";

      return $self;
}

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my $thing = new BigThing();
$thing->field1(10);
printf "%s\n",$thing->field2;