Re^2: Perl oddities

[brian_d_foy]

in reply to Re: Perl oddities
in thread Perl oddities

I had never really thought of it like that: maybe because we teach it in the second day of Learning Perl and I don't talk about objects and such then. This has also been around a bit longer than

Too bad this doesn't seem to work.

#!/usr/bin/perl

STDOUT->print( "Hello World!\n" );

I get this error:

Can't locate object method "print" via package "IO::Handle" at io.pl l
+ine 3.

If I change it slightly, though, I get the expected output. I'm surprised I didn't get the "perhaps you forgot to load ..." message that usually comes with this sort of error.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use IO::Handle;

STDOUT->print( "Hello World!\n" );

[ikegami]

I'm surprised I didn't get the "perhaps you forgot to load ..." message that usually comes with this sort of error.

Odd, I get the message...

>perl -e "bless({}, 'Cow')->moo();"
Can't locate object method "moo" via package "Cow" (perhaps you forgot
+ to load "Cow"?) at -e line 1.

>perl -e "STDOUT->print();"
Can't locate object method "print" via package "IO::Handle" (perhaps y
+ou forgot to load "IO::Handle"?) at -e line 1.

>perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

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