Re^3: Quoting package names

Actually, it does work with strict. The trailing double colon is magical.

However, "Foo" isn't longer than Foo:: and everyone knows what the former means, so there's usually not much point of writing the latter.

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Re^4: Quoting package names by Anonymous Monk on May 27, 2015 at 10:01 UTC
Probably meant it causes a warning :) `$ perl -le"use strict; use warnings; use parent qw/ CGI FCGI/; " $ perl -le"use strict; use warnings; use parent CGI::, FCGI::; " Bareword "CGI::" refers to nonexistent package at -e line 1. Bareword "FCGI::" refers to nonexistent package at -e line 1.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: Quoting package names
by Anonymous Monk on May 27, 2015 at 10:01 UTC

Probably meant it causes a warning :)

$ perl -le"use strict; use warnings; use parent qw/ CGI FCGI/; "

$ perl -le"use strict; use warnings; use parent CGI::, FCGI::; "
Bareword "CGI::" refers to nonexistent package at -e line 1.
Bareword "FCGI::" refers to nonexistent package at -e line 1.
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