Re^4: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call

can should be used for methods and only for methods

that boat has sailed a long time ago :)

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Re^5: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 17, 2012 at 13:06 UTC
That makes no sense. This isn't a change; `can` has never done the right thing for non-methods.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by Anonymous Monk on Dec 17, 2012 at 13:10 UTC
sure it has :) `$ perl -le " sub fudge { 42 } print main->can(q/fudge/)->() " 42` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 19, 2012 at 12:46 UTC
That has always searched main's inheritance tree in the case where &main::fudge didn't exist, and that's not the right thing for subs.	[reply]
Re^8: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by Anonymous Monk on Dec 21, 2012 at 03:42 UTC