I don't know the answer to this, but I have heard from various sources that: 
my $query = CGI->new();

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is preferable to 
my $query = new CGI;

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I'm a bit curious as to why that would be preferable, so I open that topic up for discussion. If a good reason for it is revealed, Ovid, you might want to do it that way in your course. Of course, in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, you could decide you like it the way you have it, and leave it that way.

Personally I always use the arrow method, but I don't know which one is "right".

In reply to RE: Beginnings of Online CGI Course by Adam
in thread Beginnings of Online CGI Course by Ovid

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