Method, procedure, function. It's all the same thing. The thing that differes is how you call them. I'd say that 
sub Foo::new {
  bless {}, $_[0];
}

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is still a method even if I call it with Foo::new($class). Or what about this: 
my $bar = $foo->can('bar');
$bar->($foo); # Is there any difference between this &bar
$foo->$bar;   # and this &bar?

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There are times when you wish to specify which class's method to use. Here you can call your method as an ordinary subroutine call, being sure to pass the requisite first argument explicitly /.../ Unlike method calls, function calls don't consider inheritance. (perlobj)

And this is exactly what we want... or at least what Dave05 intended. He even wrote that the subs are private. &_write takes an object as the first argument, so it's effectively the same thing as a method, hence you could say "private method", and private methods shouldn't be invoked as methods. Invoking private methods as methods will lead to Bad Things.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Tie-ing hashes clobbers data by Anonymous Monk
in thread Tie-ing hashes clobbers data by Dave05

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