It's not a different type of object, it's just a different syntax that does the same thing - the Indirect Object Syntax. For reasons documented in that link, its use is generally discouraged, but it's still used in print (and sometimes system/exec). You also still see it often in expressions like the following, because new is a keyword in other languages.

my $file1 = new File $path, $data;
# is the same as
my $file2 = File->new($path, $data);
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