I second the others in avoiding indirect object notation.

But it's worth noting an "inconsistency" when printing to filehandles, since

• print $filehandle  "Hello world";

is an everyday use of indirect object notation (same with say )

So common that no feature "indirect" won't disable it.

This will also answer the question, how to add arguments to such a method call:

Drop the comma between object/class and first argument.

• method OBJ arg1,arg2,...;

Now I'm curious to know how the very common

• $obj = new CLASS

is effected by this feature.

Edit

Brian's article says that new is also forbidden!

Which makes sense since it's not a keyword, you can name the constructer(s) freely.

But it also claims that filehandles are generally exempted, which would also cover flush...

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