Re: Re (tilly) 3: Filehandles vs. Packages: And the winner is...

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The arrow invocation produces the same result in this case:

$ perl -MCGI -e 'my $q = CGI->new(); open CGI, "~/foo.txt"; print ref 
+$q;'
Can't locate object method "new" via package "IO::Handle" (perhaps you
+ forgot to load "IO::Handle"?) at -e line 1.

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