Peter Scott wrote:
: Okay, I geddit... it's because HTTP::Date is required by CPAN.pm (perldoc 
: -m CPAN | grep -i http).  So perl sees the module name as being one it 
: already knows of and turns it into the indirect object syntax as you say.

OK, that makes more sense. (I wasn't entirely comfortable with my
explanation, but I couldn't tell exactly why.) That would also explain
why it bailed on Data::Dumper, because CPAN had loaded it as well.

Nice catch. :)

-- tdk

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