How do I make private functions in a Perl module?

Question

I am working on a little Perl module and for some reason I had the test driver script that was using my new module call one of the functions that I thought would be private,

Answer 1

Just check caller:

package My;

sub new {
  return bless { }, shift;
}

sub private_func {
  my ($s, %args) = @_;
  die "Error: Private method called"
    unless (caller)[0]->isa( ref($s) );

  warn "OK: Private method called by " . (caller)[0];
}

sub public_func {
  my ($s, %args) = @_;

  $s->private_func();
}

package main;

my $obj = My->new();

# This will succeed:
$obj->public_func( );

# This will fail:
$obj->private_func( );