Re^2: Can't call method "scaleY" on an undefined value at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/ Image/Seek.pm line 137.

I've been considering allowing open (or read, the official name) to be called as a class method instead, to avoid errors like this:

my $img = Imager->open(file => $foo)
  or die Imager->errstr;
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It would reduce some of the useless boilerplate Imager->new