Brothers,

I am having trouble with calling new within one package to create an object from a different one. Within the code below the call to new within the s1 subroutine gives me an error:

Bareword "T" not allowed while "strict subs" in use

but I don't see why that is different from the code 10 lines higher up. What am I missing?

use strict;
use warnings;

{
# This works
my $l2 = new T;
my $l1 = new P;

exit 0;
}

{
package P;

sub new
  {
    my $self = {};
    bless $self,shift;

    # This call works
    my $t1 = new T;

    return $self;
  }

sub s1
  {
    # This call complains that
    #     Bareword "T" not allowed 
    #      while "strict subs" in use
    my $t1 = new T;
  }
}

sub s2
  {
    # Even this works
    my $t1 = new T;
  }

{
package T;

sub new
  { return bless {},shift; }
}

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Update:Added s2 subroutine to prove that it is something to do with packages. Also this is on Perl 5.6.1 from ActiveState running on a Windows 2000 box (but I doubt that makes a difference)

In reply to Creating new objects from within a package by hawtin

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