in reply to Doubts on "Nesting packages" and "typeglobs"

-> is not related to packages. It is used for accessing reference values. Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = ("Hello world");
my $refArray = \@array;

print $refArray->[0];

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Prints:

Hello world

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Re^2: Doubts on "Nesting packages" and "typeglobs"
by ivancho (Hermit) on Jan 21, 2009 at 06:56 UTC
    OP is not asking about "->". Less haste in replying can go a long way..
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      He used it twice, he should know what its for :)
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        $ perl -e "He used it twice, he should know what its for :)"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "for :"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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        Natural language... doesn't compile in some cases... Human hardware semantic parser usage recommended.

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