As the saying goes, "Forever live, forever learn." (I'm not entirely sure if the wording is right, though ;). Even having reached the level of saint, doesn't imply that one is a trully accomplished all-knowing Perl hacker. From time to time, things that I find hard to explain do happen.

Just today, I was coding away happily until I came upon an error message saying

Can't locate object method "try" via package FOO

(note: FOO is a hypothetical package.. ).

When I looked at the code, I noticed that I really wanted to have 'eval' instead of 'try' there. So, I made the correction and went on. However, immediately, I thought "Home come Perl was looking for method 'try' in package FOO?". Indeed, could anyone explain to me the 'magic' (if only there's anything 'magical' about it :) behind this? How is it possible to invoke a package method like in the code provided below?: 
use strict;

package FOO;

sub new {};

sub try {
    print "Trying...?\n";
}

package main;

try {
  new FOO;
};

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And the output, of course, is: 
Trying...?

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I appreciate your help ;).

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In reply to package magic or am I missing something? by vladb

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