use strict; use warnings; package DBI; use Data::Dumper; sub quote ($$;$) { print Dumper \@_; } package CGI; sub param { return qw/a b c/; } package main; DBI->quote(CGI->param()); #DBI::quote(CGI->param()); #### $VAR1 = [ 'DBI', 'a', 'b', 'c' ];