Greetings fuzzyping,

Pardon the rough nature of this code, but take a look at this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

package Thing;
sub stuff { return 'word'; }
sub new { return bless {}, shift; }

package main;
my $thing = new Thing;

print $thing->stuff, "\n";
print "$thing->stuff\n";
print $thing, "\n";
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When you put $thing->stuff into quotes, Perl interprets only the $thing instead of the whole line. One solution is to do exactly what you've done which is to not put the $thing->stuff inside quotes. I remember seeing a way to get Perl to interpret the whole $thing->stuff inside a double-quote, but I never use it, so I can't remember the exact syntax right now.

gryphon
code('Perl') || die;

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