In addition, if you mistype the name, so say you do something like:

package Foo;

sub new {
    return bless {}, shift;
}

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use Foo;

my $bar = new FOO();
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You get an error saying that main::FOO() could not be found. That's not a good error.

Direct notation is put there for a purpose. I think that indirect notation was a bad idea all around, put in to pander to another community that looks down on Perl usage to begin with. *shrugs*

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