IMHO this is all a result of piggybacking OO onto Perl 4 syntax° which already had filehandles, and I'm disappointed about the bad implementation.

The fact that print $fh and $fh->print can divert is a serious design flaw in my books.

Even if print is implemented as a special cased monster for backwards compatibility, print $fh should do the same like $fh->print

Let me reiterate "you are technically correct" or in my words Perl is buggy here.

> And you were under-correct. (Thanks etj!)

Regarding etj, he hasn't contributed anything technical yet and has obviously beef with me.

I have no problems admitting when I'm wrong, this is just a very ugly case to describe how wrong everything is.

But if we want to get personal, you are the one notorious to fight till Re:50+ before admitting to be wrong or compromising that views may differ.

> CORE overrides wouldn't come into play.

ORLY? Please humor me and demonstrate a core override of print and say.

They are not possible, exactly because of their weird implementation.

°) For the record, I tried finding a Perl 4 language reference but failed, any hints/links?