Yeah, I wanted to alias the method call to a symbol within my program so I didn't have to type that much. So if the original is Time::Piece->strptime ... I wanted it to become: x->strptime. But on second thought, I of course could have created an object for Time::Piece and called strptime on the object. Didn't occur to me at the time I was writing it. I thought strptime was a CLASS method. All is good, thank you for making me think!