True, but you won't get a compile-time error for non-existant method calls no matter how you call the bogus method. i.e.

package main;

my $camel = new Camel;

print "Who", "?\t", $camel->woh, "\n";
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Compiles just fine... if you're gonna mistype the name of a method it doesn't matter whether the method name is symbolic or hard-coded (thought the typo on a symbolic reference may be far from the method call and harder to find.)

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer