The above discussion is very interesting, what follows is more or less the condensed (and hopefully clearer) conclusion:
You can only distinguish between the first three and the last three calls:
package Classname;
sub method {
print ref($_[0]) ? 'Object method' : 'Class method';
print "\n";
}
package main;
my $obj = bless {},Classname;
my $arg = 1;
# calls here
method $obj $arg;
Classname::method( $obj, $arg); # added Classname::
$obj->method( $arg);
"Classname"->method( $arg);
method Classname $arg;
Classname::method( "Classname", $arg); # added Classname::
__END__
prints:
Object method
Object method
Object method
Class method
Class method
Class method
Also note (as pointed out above) that the Classname::method calls (so, calls 2 and 6) do not support inheritance, as they are not actual method calls, but 'normal' subroutine calls pretending to be method calls.
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