in reply to FTP'ing to an FTP location that doesn't require login.

Daxim's point in a nutshell is that string interpolation doesn't do method references, so 
"Can't cd: $ftp->message \n"

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really means 
"Can't cd: " . $ftp . "->message \n"

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rather than 
"Can't cd: " . $ftp->message . " \n"

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In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom