Re^2: Getting times (weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds)

$something->func($x)
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is rarely equivalent to

func($something, $x)
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More like

Class::Or::Superclass::Of::Something::func($something, $x)
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Your explanation just reinforces the OP's misconception that printf gets called, but it's not involved one bit.

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Re^3: Getting times (weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds) by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 06, 2010 at 08:33 UTC
Not if she reads the complete sentence, and definitely not if she reads the complete post. And if you throw "Class::Or::Superclass::Of::Something::func($something, $x)" at someone unfamiliar with basic concepts of perl OO, you might as well offer a zen koan ;-).	[reply]
Re^4: Getting times (weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 06, 2010 at 16:34 UTC
I didn't say it was wrong, just misleading. "`printf` means exactly what you think it means except it really means something completely different." and "There is also an easy way to understand printf" when the "real" `printf` isn't used in the snippet. And if you throw "Class::Or::Superclass::Of::Something::func($something, $x)" at someone unfamiliar with basic concepts of perl OO, you might as well offer a zen koan ;-). That's part of what I'm saying.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Getting times (weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds) by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2010 at 00:18 UTC
I'm not too happy myself that I had to say "It works like this but it isn't used here". But I was reading her last sentence as a general(!) question about '->' and 'printf' still unanswered. That the module's printf is modeled somewhat after the real printf makes the knowledge even marginally relevant to the script.	[reply]