in reply to "Dynamic" object creation.

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
my $blah = 'CGI';
my $new = $blah->new();
die $new;
__END__
CGI=HASH(0x224f9c)

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Re^2: "Dynamic" object creation.
by tadamec (Beadle) on Jun 27, 2004 at 07:34 UTC

    Ergh.

    Test code that I used had the module name in double quotes instead of single quotes. Man, gotta quit programming when I'm so tired. I noticed later that my mistake wasn't interpolated vs. uninterpolated strings, but was the fact that I was trying to dereference a scalar (via $$ notation), rather than just using the value of the scalar in place of a module name.

    Thanks for the fix on my bonehead mistake.

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