Have you ever queried a modules version? Eg. print $List::Util::VERSION;

Or perhaps modified a modules behaviour by setting a configuration variable? Eg.

$Data::Dumper::Purity = 1
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The '::' are being taken as the package name separator token, hence the confusion. Just escape them:

print "$typ\:\:$dat>>\n"
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And that problem will go away.