Ehm, what's the puzzle?

In WWTP #1, we have two method calls. The first, $one->two(); calls two() in whatever package name is in $one, in this case, main, so main::two is called. The second print just calls one::two. You're not using @_, so what's passed as an argument isn't relevant.

In WWTP #2, you are using soft references. $one is two, $two is three and $three is four. So, $$$one (which can also be written as $$${"one"}) is four.

In WWTP #3, you first assign the %:: (which is the main stash) to %$one::, the stash of two namespace. Then you print the hash %$one (no relation to %$one::) in scalar context. This results in 0, because %$one is empty. Then you assign %:: to %$one, and you print that hash in scalar context. A non-empty hash in scalar context gives you a string with the number of used buckets and the number of allocated buckets, separated by a slash, as documented in perldata.

Abigail

In reply to Re: What will this print? by Abigail-II
in thread What will this print? by staunch

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