note jmlynesjr <p>See Programming Perl 4th Edition page 389 - Symbol Tables.</p> <p>"Symbol tables are stored in a hash whose name is the same as the package, but with two colons appended. The main symbol table's name is thus %main::."</p> <p>"Likewise, the symbol table or the Red::Blue package is named %Red::Blue::."</p> <p>James</p> <p>Also see page 423 - Package-Quoted Classes.</p> <p>"The final syntactic ambiguity with the indirect object style of method invocation is that it may not be parsed as a method call at all, because the current package may have a subroutine of the same name as the method...there is a way to resolve this ambiguity while still keeping the indirect object syntax: package-quote the class name by appending a double colon to it."</p> <code> $obj = method CLASS::; # forced to be "CLASS"->method</code> 986250 986319