Re: Bug or inconsitency? FQN of Package and sub name identical

[swampyankee]

Odd behavior when package and sub names are identical? My first suggestion is "don't do that." Perl is probably resolving its subs based, at least partly, on which ones it sees first, so it will use the first one it finds. I don't think this is either a bug or an inconsistency; it's a design decision. It does mean that the order subs are defined matters, which is not a concern unique to Perl: quite a few linkers do the same thing.

[ysth]

Yes, Foo-> compiles to (&Foo())-> if a sub Foo already exists; otherwise it's ("Foo")->:

$ perl -wl
sub Foo::new{"new in Foo"}
sub Bar::new{"new in Bar"}
print "before sub Foo: ", Foo->new;
sub Foo {"Bar"}
print "after sub Foo: ", Foo->new
__END__
before sub Foo: new in Foo
after sub Foo: new in Bar

You can disambiguate by saying Foo::->new or "Foo"->new. I prefer the former.