I have some modules for form generation and processing that aren't Dancer classes (in that they don't contain any routes). Inside these I'd like to use some of the dancer functions like "params." When I "use Dancer" at the top of one of these modules I am getting a really odd error message. runtime error Operation "eq": no method found, left argument in overloaded package Fan::Form::Register, right argument has no overloaded magic at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/Dancer/Request.pm line 177. /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/Dancer/Request.pm around line 177 174 return %{$self->{params}} if wantarray && @_ == 1; 175 return $self->{params} if @_ == 1; 176 177 if ($source eq 'query') { 178 return %{$self->{_query_params}} if wantarray; 179 return $self->{_query_params}; 180 } In my main Dancer class, Fan::Web, I have a route sub that says: my $params = params(); I then pass this hashref into my form module like this: my $form = Fan::Form::Register->new($params); If I don't "use Dancer" in the form module, all works well. If I "use Dancer;" in the form module I get the error message. I am trying to use Dancer so I can use the debug/warning functions. I don't understand the error message. I have an overloaded "" operator in the form class (to return an HTML representation of the form) but I don't know how calling the params() function in my main Dancer routes class (Fan::Web) and then passing the hashref into my form class can cause an error like this. Any thoughts? Thanks, Brian