'install URI' collides with one form to call a method in perl, what happens here, shows '-MO=Deparse' (Thanks and ++ to jeffa for pointing this out in the undef var thread, a new tool in my ever growing perl-box):

~> perl -MO=Deparse -MCPAN -e "install URI::URL"
use CPAN;
'URI::URL'->install;
-e syntax OK
[download]

and, as is often the case, a unary + corrects the compilers perspective:

~> perl -MO=Deparse -MCPAN -e "install +URI::URL"
use CPAN;
install('URI::URL');
-e syntax OK
[download]

regards,
tomte

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