Re^6: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call

sure it has :)

$ perl -le " sub fudge { 42 } print main->can(q/fudge/)->() "
42
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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
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. Sure, but setting up an inheritance tree for main is the bug :)	[reply]