What tobyink demonstrated is that a bareword will act as a procedure call if (and only if) a subroutine of that name is known. Perl's auto-quoting of barewords will only kick in in the absence of such a subroutine. Any kind of explicit quoting, of course, will also avoid procedure calls. 

my $object3 = 'Foo::Bar'->new;
say ref $object3;   # says "Foo::Bar"

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So we now have established by different examples that trailing double-colons can act like quoting.

There may be caveats though. In some places where perl looks for barewords, the package-quoted bareword does not seem to lose its bareword-likeness. 

use strict;
use warnings;
package Foo::Bar;
package main;
print Foo::Bar::;    # warns:
# Name "Foo::Bar" used only once: possible typo
# print() on unopened filehandle Bar
print Foo::Bar::, "Baz\n"; # prints Foo::BarBaz

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Perl has to distinguish whether print with a single argument is called as print HANDLE or print LIST, and apparently uses a rather simple heuristic for this.

I try to avoid ambiguity with print and always use the print HANDLE LIST syntax for printing to handles.

In reply to Re^2: Bareword Package Names by martin
in thread Bareword Package Names by martin

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