Is actually a strange form of indirect method invocation, except that its a special case in that you can use it without using any modules, and that the method form *requires* you to use the IO::Handle module before it is used. (This will hopefully not be necessary to do in 5.10.1). In other words it is much the same as saying my $obj=new Class::Name

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