# from Andreas J. Koenig
# on Saturday 17 November 2007 01:54:
>A different and slightly less brute fix would probably be to say
>version::->new() like I do on all package names always everywhere
>because it's the only safe way to call a method on a package name that
>has no colons in it.
Well, or any package whatsoever.
$ perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; sub foo::bar () {"this"};
foo::bar->new'
Can't locate object method "new" via package "this"
--Eric
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